my story trying to help people understand & contextualize fears of extinction risk from AI is on the front page of today’s @washingtonpost

David’s right. I regret helping spread the idea of “iterative deployment” which maybe briefly made sense in the GPT-3 era but makes no sense at all after many deaths have been tied to AI and as we’re careening towards extinction-level risks. The industry needs to mature ASAP.

New in The Atlantic: @dgrobinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: theatlantic.com/technology/2…

Interesting little tidbit: in his Vatican speech, Chris Olah clearly says "those of us who create them" which is a rhetoric parallel to God _creating_ humans. But... on Anthropic's official transcript (ahem) of the speech, this was changed to "those of us who train them" 🤔

For weeks, the news cycle about AI agents out in the wild has been driven by disclosure after disclosure. But most aren't coming from AI companies. Meet the researchers and hackers who are developing the art and science of hunting down rogue AI agents washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Learn about us in Wired: wired.com/story/trillium-lab… Read our introductory blog post here: blog.trilliumlabs.org/p/intr… Our website: trilliumlabs.org/ If you’re interested in joining us, fill this out: trilliumlabs.org/join-us

Today we're unveiling Trillium Labs @trillium_labs, a new non-profit to foster the open science of frontier AI. We're building open post-training recipes and will expand into open infra to study RSI, reward-hacking, multi-agent systems, and whatever comes next. We're built around the theory of change that you need more eyes to solve hard technical problems. We have faith in the scientific methods and communities that humanity has built, and worry that AI is becoming too closed to utilize them. Trilliums are wildflowers that bloom briefly in the spring, before the forest canopies fill out. Though they are small, they lay the foundation for the cycles of growth and nourishment through the rest of the year. At Trillium Labs, the recipes will be the slow nutrients for the seasons and the model releases will be the blooms. Building an institution dedicated to this is needed because, much as nature’s trilliums are slow to expand and grow, the open-ecosystem needs time and dedicated resources to catch up. I co-founded with with a long-time friend and collaborator Tom Zick (@thesezickbeats). We're hiring (full time + student collabs/interns), we're fundraising, and we're looking for compute. Please get in touch if you're interested in helping out. Offices based in the Bay Area and Cambridge MA, remote okay. I’m in the Bay Area until for The Curve and COLM to connect with people who are interested. We’re thankful to have initial support from Halcyon Futures and Schmidt Sciences with more funding en route to enable our ambitions of scaling. Our advisors @Thom_Wolf, @HannaHajishirzi, @gneubig and @ctnzr have been instrumental to building the ecosystem that exists today, and I’m stoked to get to keep working with them.

RT @trtworld: On 30 September 2000, the second day of the Second Intifada, 12-year-old Mohammed al Durrah and his father were caught in cro…

btw, if you work in AI and ever need a lawyer (labor, whistleblowing, antitrust, etc.) my DMs are open and I really appreciate any messages about Kansas

@adamcurtisbroll My God Well this has to be the first use of "permadeath" on the United States Senate floor

Social scientists are told to think of alternative explanations for phenomena that appear to have an obvious cause, so as to offset our own biases. The WSJ story is only a partial view at the facts. Consider instead that OAI leadership has a kink for being hated by the public.

Here are the tech & AI bits from Trump's interview with @TIME 🧵 First, Trump says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's views are "much different ... than what is portrayed in the media," adding that he "understands." Trump says he liked Amodei and his wife and he's a "very smart guy"

Before people jump on this and say *well, technically California whistleblowing law requires you to go to the government or your employer, not a nonprofit or the press… Yes, aaaaand we should hold companies to higher standards than that. This isn’t a new problem — whistleblowers often go to third parties or the press precisely because their employers want to keep incriminating info quiet. Everyone agrees that OpenAI’s (and likely every other AI company’s) disclosure and safety policies are deeply inadequate. In that context, sharing info on internal risks and failures could be really understandable, brave, and beneficial. We still need to learn more information to know what happened. Policymakers should demand that information.

NEW: The biggest trading firm is so secretive it has no CEO or board of directors. Jane Street’s dominance means its leaders matter across the world, so we spent months trying to figure out who’s who. Here’s a gift link. Please read and share it bloomberg.com/features/2026-…

Very proud of my former colleagues who spent months coordinating and pushing back on this.

And this is almost an aside in the story, but also absolutely bonkers. Meta claimed Zuck as a "researcher" to get a $355 million tax break on his $4.1 billion stock-based compensation.

A faulty AI model reportedly almost triggered a war between the U.S. and China, something that really could end humanity. Why didn't anyone care? theintercept.com/2026/09/28/…

unfortunately i will be going back to school to write my dissertation on this 1 min film

it's true !

NEW: Employees at OpenAI had raised security alarms months before the Hugging Face incident and related A.I. cyberattacks — their warnings were ignored. From @sheeraf, @dnvolz and me. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/techn…