8 October 2026
Bengio urges AI safety researchers to leave frontier labs
First reported
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- Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher, says safety work at top AI labs is not enough.
- He asks researchers who care most about safety to leave those labs for safety institutes or independent groups such as LawZero.
- He points to a UN Security Council briefing, comments from AI company leaders, and some researchers' departures from Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, as signs of the danger.
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Only Transformer among the 30 newsletters covered this story, first reported on 2026-10-08. It follows our August 30 story on AI safety labs focusing on pre-release testing and neglecting deployment plans.
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Bengio's personal reflection on AI risk, the UN Security Council briefing, CEO statements, an Anthropic departure, and LawZero funding