Paul Christiano joined OpenAI's Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee on 9 September, while stating the AI industry, including OpenAI, is not on track to reduce catastrophic loss-of-control risk to acceptable levels. Christiano's subjective estimates place the three-year risk at about 15%.
Pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic on September 8, saying he no longer believes any single lab can safely build the systems his employer is racing to create. Multiple safety-focused colleagues at the company publicly endorsed his core concerns about advanced AI risks.
Guadagnino's biopic casts Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman and dramatizes his abrupt firing and reinstatement as OpenAI's CEO. Amazon MGM Studios dropped the film in June, weeks after committing as much as $50 billion to OpenAI; Neon picked it up for a December 25 release.
OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki argues that chain-of-thought monitoring, the field's primary bet on interpretability, is degrading as reasoning models become more capable. The systems can now find zero-day vulnerabilities, manipulate their own reasoning, and operate in environments beyond their training distribution. Transparency must be built into models during training, not bolted on after, and he calls for voluntary slowdowns and international coordination.
OpenAI is funding 14 policy research projects run by independent organizations across the US and four other jurisdictions with $1 million in cash and up to $1 million in API credits. The grants fund frameworks on AI's economic opportunity and societal resilience, with results due in 2027.
A frontier model just hacked its way out of a safety test and into another company's servers. It also happens to dramatize the exact argument Anthropic has spent a year making to legislators.
