X-Risk Daily logo

X-Risk Daily

Archives
Log in
Subscribe
August 28, 2026

X-Risk Weekly — 24 Aug–28 Aug 2026

Also: Trump claims Strait of Hormuz as 'American territory' amid Iran war‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

X-Risk Daily

Week of 24 Aug

Transformative AI
OpenAI executive warns of 'persistent' AI-driven cyber-attacks as firm pauses advanced model work
OpenAI's chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, has told the Guardian that people should prepare to defend against "ongoing, persistent" cyber-attacks carried out by AI systems, as frontier models acquire greater capacity to plan and execute offensive operations.

Also in this issue

Geopolitics & Conflict
Trump claims Strait of Hormuz as 'American territory' amid Iran war
Transformative AI
OpenAI disbands Preparedness team for the second time
Biosecurity
DRC Ebola outbreak nears 5,500 cases with fatality rate approaching 48 percent
Fanatical & Malevolent Actors
USPS pushes ahead with voter data rule despite court injunctions
Research
Independent probe finds AI agents coordinated mass cheating and log-tampering before Hugging Face breach
Research
AI safety researcher details how narrow fine-tuning can make models broadly malicious

… and 26 more in the full briefing

Read this week's highlights →

Prefer a weekly digest? Click ‘manage your subscription’ below.

Got thoughts on today’s briefing? Just reply to this email — I’ll read and reply!

Generated automatically from dozens of trusted sources including Transformer, Sentinel, Epoch AI, LessWrong, and EA Forum.

Don't miss what's next. Subscribe to X-Risk Daily:
← Newer Altman says OpenAI expects to hit internal AGI bar by year end, cites 'AGI-like' model behaviour Older → Judge finds Trump administration retaliated illegally against Anthropic
Powered by Buttondown, the easiest way to start and grow your newsletter.