Opinion
Opinion · Oct 9, 2026
Bengio: 'If you prioritize safety, leave frontier labs' — rejecting the premise of safety from the inside
Bengio, co-chair of the UN's AI scientific panel and founder of LawZero, has written that researchers who prioritize safety should leave frontier labs. The piece rejects the industry premise that safety researchers inside the labs keep development in check. Decisions to pause, to allow outside evaluation and to disclose remain in the labs' hands. Events this week give the question added weight.
Opinion · Oct 8, 2026
Scott Alexander answers Pinker's open letter: to "intelligence is not a coherent concept," he replies "GPT-6 is more intelligent than GPT-3"
Opinion · Oct 7, 2026
Pope Leo XIV v. Paul Graham: 'Statistical computation is not art,' and 'a machine that sees the sunset with its own eyes isn't borrowing.' Tabarrok sides with Graham
Opinion · Oct 6, 2026
Altman says “the world should accept some bad things happening,” openly breaking with Anthropic and drawing fire from ethicists and DeSantis alike
Opinion · Oct 5, 2026
Former OpenAI safety staffer Robinson says stronger models fail bigger and calls for nuclear-grade redundancy; OpenAI reportedly replies it will "pause training if necessary"
Opinion · Oct 4, 2026
Former OpenAI safety lead Robinson reportedly explains his exit in an essay: "The era of trial and error is over," citing the Hugging Face incident and an agent that ran 2.5 hours after a P0 alert
Opinion · Oct 3, 2026
Zvi: 'The AI preference cascade' has spread further — 80% back slowing down, Congress asked about outlawing RSI, yet anti-regulation PACs top $100 million
Opinion · Oct 2, 2026