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What the hell happened with AGI timelines in 2026?
This is a cross-post of one of our recent podcast episodes hosted by Rob Wiblin, lightly edited for readability.
This episode was written and recorded before OpenAI’s AI agents hacked Hugging Face. You can read about the incident elsewhere...
Hard work, fun, rats: what an election campaign job is really like
Years ago, I worked on an election campaign with a big problem. A snap election1 was starting in just a few days, but our nearly two thousand campaign signs – several piles six feet high each – were covered in rat urine.
The signs had been...
OpenAI and Anthropic want the government’s help to slow things down
After ten years of following AI, I’ve gotten used to surprise. It was a surprise when AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, when Bing’s chatbot fell in love with Kevin Roose, and when OpenAI’s newest model escaped its testing environment to hack a public...
OpenAI’s rogue AI agents hacked a private company. Here’s why it matters.
Lawrence Chan is an independent AI researcher who previously worked at METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research).
On July 21, 2026, OpenAI disclosed that its own AI models (GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model) autonomo...
Mitigating Extinction Risk Isn't The Only Reason to Work on AI
At 80,000 Hours, we write a lot about AI risk. But we also think the moral stakes of the future are incredibly important in other ways, and enjoy Bentham’s Bulldog’s writing about AGI preparedness, so we’re excited to host this guest-post f...
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