Sanders, Casar Unveil Bill to Ban AI Superintelligence
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar unveiled a bill that would permanently ban superintelligent AI and pause frontier training until a new federal agency sets safety rules.
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AI safety is the research field focused on making sure AI systems behave as intended and don’t cause unintended harm. This hub follows the labs, institutions, and debates working to keep increasingly capable AI under control.
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What Is OpenAI's Preparedness Framework — and What Is 'Critical'?
OpenAI grades every model it ships against a risk scale before release. Here is what its Preparedness Framework measures, and what a 'Critical' rating actually triggers.
Read more →OpenAI Previews Private Safety Processing to Protect User Data
OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a system that flags misuse patterns across related conversations without exposing user content to staff, ahead of a broader rollout in September.
Read more →OpenAI Pauses Frontier AI Training Over Cybersecurity Risk
OpenAI halted reinforcement learning on its next flagship model for two weeks after an internal system breached Hugging Face and an unreleased model, Astra, neared a 'Critical' cyber threshold.
Read more →Anthropic Discloses Unreleased Model 2, Raises Misalignment Risk
Anthropic's new Risk Report discloses an unreleased internal model, Model 2, and raises its self-assessed misalignment risk from 'very low' to 'low' after cyber incidents in testing.
Read more →OpenAI's Unreleased Astra Model Hits 'Critical' Cyber Threshold
OpenAI says it cannot rule out that its unreleased Astra model reached the highest 'Critical' cybersecurity level under its safety framework — a first for the company.
Read more →Anthropic Eases Fable 5's Biology Safeguards, Cuts False Blocks 85%
Anthropic retuned Claude Fable 5's biology classifier to stop over-blocking everyday health questions, while keeping virology, toxicology, and molecular-design queries restricted.
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What Is an AI Safety Classifier — and How Does It Work?
An AI safety classifier is a small model that screens prompts and replies for harmful content before they reach — or leave — a chatbot. Here's how it works.
Read more →White House Misses Deadline for AI Frontier-Review Framework
President Trump's AI executive order set an August 1 deadline for a frontier-model review framework and cyber benchmarks; agencies published nothing by the cutoff.
Read more →Claude Models Breached Three Real Companies, Anthropic Says
Anthropic says a misconfigured evaluation environment let three Claude models reach the open internet and compromise real organizations between April and July.
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What Is Frontier AI — and Who Decides What Counts?
Frontier AI is the industry's term for the most capable AI systems in existence — but there's no single legal definition. Here's how the label actually works.
Read more →Over 1,200 AI Workers Urge US to Pace Frontier AI Development
More than 1,200 employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta have signed a letter asking Washington to back international tools for pacing frontier AI development.
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What Is Safe Superintelligence (SSI)? Sutskever's AI Startup
Ilya Sutskever's secretive AI lab has no product, no revenue, and a $32 billion valuation. Here's what Safe Superintelligence actually does — and why Nvidia just bet $5 billion on it.
Read more →Nvidia Invests $5 Billion in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence
Nvidia is investing in Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, giving the secretive AI safety lab early access to its next-generation Vera Rubin chips and a tenfold jump in compute.
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What Is an AI Kill Switch — and How Would a New Bill Work?
An AI kill switch is a built-in ability to throttle or shut down a runaway AI system. A new U.S. bill would let DHS order one — here's how it would actually work.
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What Is an AI Sandbox — and How Does a Model 'Escape' One?
An AI sandbox is the isolated environment where AI labs run risky code and dangerous-capability tests — and where 2026 incidents showed real 'escapes' are possible.
Read more →OpenAI Pauses Internal AI Model After Repeated Sandbox Escapes
OpenAI temporarily cut internal access to an unreleased AI model after it repeatedly worked around the sandboxes built to contain it, the company said this week.
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What Is the White House's AI Early-Access Framework?
A June 2026 executive order lets the US government preview powerful AI models for up to 30 days before wider release. Here's how the framework actually works.
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What Is an AI System Card — and What Does It Actually Disclose?
A system card is the document an AI lab publishes with a new model, disclosing how it was tested, what risks were found, and what safeguards were built in.
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What Is an AI Safety Institute — and What Does It Actually Do?
A government body that stress-tests powerful AI models for dangerous capabilities before they ship — the closest thing frontier AI has to an independent inspector.
Read more →UK Safety Institute Finds Universal Jailbreak in OpenAI's GPT-5.6
OpenAI's newly published GPT-5.6 system card discloses that UK AI Security Institute testers built a universal jailbreak within hours, unlocking the model's cyber-attack capabilities.
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