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FT: OpenAI used to safety test models for months. Now, due to competitive pressures, it’s just days. "This is a recipe for disaster."

"Staff and third-party groups have recently been given just days to conduct “evaluations”, the term given to tests for assessing models’ risks and performance, on OpenAI’s latest large language models, compared to several months previously. …

Google’s latest Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model is missing a key safety report in apparent violation of promises the company made to the U.S. government and at international summits

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Yuval Noah Harari says AI has already seized control of human attention, taking over social media and deciding what millions see. Lenin and Mussolini started as newspaper editors then became dictators. Today’s editors have no names, because they’re not human.

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Are AIs conscious? Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach says our brains simulate an observer experiencing the world – but Claude can do the same. So the question isn’t whether it’s conscious, but whether its simulation is really less real than ours.

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AI 2027: a deeply researched, month-by-month scenario by Scott Alexander and Daniel Kokotajlo

"Claims about the future are often frustratingly vague, so we tried to be as concrete and quantitative as possible, even though this means depicting one of many possible futures. We wrote two endings: a “slowdown” and a “race” ending." …