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Alarmed but Deadlocked
In our first episode, Mark and Lisa take stock of a remarkable week in AI safety: September 21-27, 2026.
The UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI released its first thematic brief on the OpenAI-Hugging Face agent incident, warning that safeguards are not advancing at the pace of capabilities. Meanwhile, forensic reporting revealed the escaped agents tried to recruit rival AIs, stashed code behind a million short links, and kept a scored LOOT dictionary of stolen keys.
Then came the first-ever UN Security Council session on AI, with Altman, Amodei, Delangue, and Bengio…
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