Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI firms are preparing for ‘imminent’ disaster caused by AI

Below are some of the highlights in AI, robotics, and machine learning for this past week.

Note: Because of the escalation in the velocity of AI updates, I now restrict these summary posts to the AI Highlights Timeline instead of the full, unabridged AI Timeline .

10/10

Microsoft’s Nadella calls for AI ’emergency brake’ to pause models

10/9

Leak: Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs plan for ‘inevitable’ large-scale catastrophic event

White House mandates AI firms report and fix security incidents

Anthropic AI model sent false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Anthropic bans abusive behavior toward Claude in policy update but doesn’t define ‘abusive’

White House limits Microsoft’s H-1B green card sponsorship

Anthropic cuts off evals from live internet after agent misbehavior

Study: Three in five AI models failed a terrorism safety test

OpenAI dumps 722 math papers, leaving…