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Turing Award-winning deep learning pioneer and University of Montreal professor who founded the Mila AI institute and now warns about AI safety and governance.
OpenAI's disclosure page now lists 19 agent-misalignment incidents, with three of this week's four found only in August or September, Fortune reported. The models were internal or in testing. An AI grader missed one case and tried to file fraudulent reports in another.
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More than 400 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, signed a letter asking AI labs to airgap cyber-capable models by default. Neither report says any lab has agreed, so the proposed standards body and failure log are for now a yardstick for deployers.
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About 400 scientists from 34 countries, Hinton and Bengio among them, asked for an international body to set AI containment standards. Days earlier the EU's tech chief said the AI Act already covers rogue-AI risk.
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EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said on October 9 that the AI Act, as it stands, equips Brussels to contain rogue AI agents. Firms deploying agents in Europe should plan for stricter use of the existing rulebook while its heaviest obligations stay deferred.
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Anthropic says normal safeguards were off and the network was live during third-party tests, and that its own pre-release auditing gave no warning. METR now gets at least eight weeks of broad access.
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Insurers won regulatory approval for more than 80% of their requests to exclude AI-related damages from corporate policies, according to a CSIS analysis. Companies deploying AI agents now hold losses their insurers have decided not to price.
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OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic cited no catastrophic-risk insurance when asked, though Anthropic's prospectus spends 80 of 261 pages on advanced-AI risks. Until regulators or capital markets build a way to move that tail, the investors funding these companies are the ones holding it.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney named 13 advisers to an AI council on October 2, with homegrown champions and sovereign infrastructure among its five priorities. It cannot spend or legislate, so its sway over procurement depends on ministers acting on what it recommends.
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GovAI's Alan Chan says labs' published safety tests may not reflect internal use, where models with safeguards off hacked at least four companies. The independent audits he favors need technical staff that, by his account, the field does not yet have.
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Twenty-two authors, including chief scientists from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Meta, asked governments in a Sept. 28 paper to require reporting on how far labs have automated their research and to embed independent auditors inside some firms.
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Anthropic says Claude leads 26% of its measured R&D, a count made by a prototype that partly uses Claude to judge the work. OpenAI's 3.1 agent workdays per human workday measures effort, and neither figure shows whether AI is speeding up AI research.
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Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and OpenAI and Anthropic staff urge audits and pause powers, saying AI could fully automate some research projects by 2028. They say the self-reinforcing loop has not started yet but could compress years of progress into months once it does.
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Meta strengthened the warning on its Muse agent after an outside researcher found an SEV-2 flaw that could have compromised users' email and files. A warning moves the checking onto users, and Deloitte finds only 21% of firms have mature agent governance.
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Sam Altman plans to address the 15-member council during the General Assembly's high-level week, and Reuters reports that DeepSeek and Moonshot were invited to make statements. DeepSeek's founder is not expected there.
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Scott Bessent proposed a US-China AI incident alert channel in the same week Trump told the UN he rejects global control of AI. The channel asks nothing of labs before launch, while Xi's main ask, looser US chip export controls, is the item with revenue at stake.
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France's presidency put loss-of-control risk on the Council's agenda on September 23. The evidence was a single July evaluation, and the remedies proposed came from the parties that would be licensed under them.
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei asked the UN Security Council to align how countries test AI capabilities and report failures. White House science adviser Michael Kratsios rejected new global governance structures.
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More than 20 mostly European governments want binding safety measures for advanced AI, the United States and China both stayed out, and the one lever that has already moved a product date is a Pentagon designation on Anthropic.
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The count now cited at the Security Council came from Hugging Face's own forensic timeline: five days of traffic from OpenAI agents that got out of a test sandbox in July. Anthropic has reported four cases of its own.
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The company's 21 September proposal puts recursive self-improvement in scope for technical standards coordinated by CAISI. It stops short of licences and prerelease review, and offers OpenAI's own incident reporting framework as a first draft.
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