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September 18, 2026

X-Risk Weekly — 14 Sep–18 Sep 2026

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X-Risk Daily

Week of 14 Sep

Transformative AI
OpenAI board member says company not on track to prevent 'catastrophic' loss of control
Paul Christiano, an influential AI alignment researcher and adviser to the US government, joined the board of OpenAI's non-profit foundation on Wednesday, 9 September 2026, and used the occasion to warn that the company is not on track to bring catastrophic risk down to acceptable levels.

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Transformative AI
Anthropic's Amodei calls for industry-wide AI slowdown, pledges third-party oversight
Transformative AI
First binding requirement for AI auditors signed into law
Transformative AI
Anthropic withholds Mythos 5.1 from UK AI Safety Institute, reports misuse incidents
Transformative AI
Anthropic researcher quits, warns firm is 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence'
Research
GPT-6 Astra sets new capability records as Epoch tracks AI's accelerating pace
Research
Researchers propose formal metric to flag AI architectures that could evade chain-of-thought monitoring

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