The Latest Breaking News from Daniel Kokotajlo

OpenAI Researcher Claims Humanity Will Be Placed in 'Zoos' for 'Scientific Purposes' in Chilling Warning

Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo warns that advanced AI could transform humanity into a protected curiosity, similar to 'zoo' animals, as AI systems reshape the world without human control.

International Business Times UK · Sep 10

Why are AI safety experts alarmed by reports OpenAI’s Astra model uses “recurrent depth”?

OpenAI’s chief scientist says the company is committed to ensuring its models’ reasoning remains interpretable.

Fortune · Sep 3

‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks

Chris Lehane tells Guardian of need to implement new safety standards as critics say AI firms acting ‘recklessly’

The Guardian - US · Aug 23

Starve Acre review: "Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith headline a chilling and unnerving horror movie"

Starve Acre review: "Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith headline a chilling and unnerving horror movie"

Total Film · Aug 30, 2024

Elon Musk throws support behind California’s AI safety bill—‘this is a tough call and will make some people upset’

This week is the final deadline for California's landmark SB 1047 bill to pass, which would codify the first safety guardrails on AI on U.S. statute books.

Fortune · Aug 27, 2024

A former OpenAI researcher claims the ChatGPT maker could be on the precipice of achieving AGI, but it's not prepared “to handle all that entails" as shiny products get precedents over safety

A former OpenAI researcher speculates half of the ChatGPT maker's super alignment team departed because the company is on the precipice of hitting the AGI benchmark, but it can't handle all that it entails.

Windows Central · Aug 27, 2024

OpenAI's AGI safety team has been gutted, says ex-researcher

A group of OpenAI researchers ensuring that a future AGI system does not pose catastrophic or even existential danger has been decimated.

Fortune · Aug 26, 2024

'The world isn’t ready, and we aren’t ready. And I’m concerned we are rushing forward regardless and rationalizing our actions': OpenAI employees sound the alarm ahead of Apple partnership

Apple is expected to announce a partnership with OpenAI next week at WWDC, but former OpenAI employees are raising the alarm. Could controversy at OpenAI derail Apple's AI ambitions?

Laptop · Jun 5, 2024

Starve Acre at the London Film Festival: Folk horror with Matt Smith is high on atmosphere, if low on scares

Daniel Kokotajlo’s adaptation of acclaimed occult novel features two grieving parents who dig into the past of their family estate

Evening Standard · Oct 12, 2023

New horror movie starring Lord of the Rings and Doctor Who actors gets creepy first look

Starve Acre stars Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith

Total Film · Aug 29, 2023