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10 things I’ve been told about AI over 72 hours in San Francisco

The Australian Financial Review (AFR) •
November 12, 2026 • 06:00 PM
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In meetings with AI frontier labs, former employees and safety experts, so many deeply frightening things have been said it is easy to become numb.

10 things I’ve been told about AI over 72 hours in San Francisco

San Francisco | Imagine a rogue artificial intelligence agent defecting to a foreign power and trying to corrupt or flip other agents. According to some AI safety experts that is not a crazy idea. Indeed, it’s not even the most crazy idea they worry about.

In just 72 hours of an AI study tour in San Francisco meeting with frontier AI labs, former AI employees and AI safety experts, so many deeply frightening things have been said it is almost easy to become numb.

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