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1. Article · Gulf-wide · 28 September 2026

   Fears vs Reality: an honest series about the worries people have about AI

2. Article · No single place · 28 September 2026

   AI Camps: 'Doomers' and the p(doom) debate

3. Article · No single place · 28 September 2026

   AI Camps: a calm map of the AI debate

4. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

   Frontier AI is concentrated and becoming less transparent: industry produced 90%+ of notable models in 2025; transparency index average fell from 58 to 40.

5. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

   Misinformation/disinformation ranked 2nd most severe global risk (2-year); adverse outcomes of AI 5th (10-year).

6. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

   UN to establish an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI (40 experts) and a Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

7. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

   EU high-risk (Annex III) rules apply from 2 Dec 2027; Annex I from 2 Aug 2028.

8. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

   EU AI Act high-risk rules to apply from 2 Aug 2026.

9. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

   EU AI Act obligations for general-purpose AI models apply from 2 Aug 2025.

10. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Frontier models may give meaningful bio/chem uplift to novices; developers added safeguards because they could not exclude it.

11. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    AI lowers the barrier to sophisticated, largely autonomous cyberattacks.

12. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Masdar/EWEC round-the-clock project (5.2GW PV + 19GWh storage, 1GW continuous) operational in 2027; "world-first" (Masdar).

13. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    AI will raise total factor productivity by no more than 0.66% over ten years.

14. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Generative AI could raise global GDP by about 7% over ten years.

15. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months."

16. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    The end of disease: "within reach. Maybe within the next decade or so".

17. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    AGI "in the next five to ten years".

18. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    AI can produce science recognised at the highest level.

19. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    The length of tasks AI agents can complete doubles roughly every 7 months.

20. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "By the end of the century … we will still be wondering if the singularity is near."

21. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "I'll be surprised if this event occurs before 2005 or after 2030."

22. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."

23. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Large language models as "stochastic parrots": risks of size, cost, bias and documentation.

24. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Worrying about evil killer AI is like worrying about "overpopulation on Mars".

25. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Deep learning is "hitting a wall"; scaling laws are "mere observations that might not hold forever".

26. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Existential-risk probabilities "lack meaningful epistemic foundations".

27. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    AI's impacts will unfold over decades, like electricity, as institutions adapt.

28. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    LawZero will develop "Scientist AI", a non-agentic system to act as a guardrail.

29. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Extinction from AI by 2100: superforecasters median 0.38%, AI experts median 3%.

30. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "25% chance that things go really, really badly"; 75% really, really well.

31. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    10–20% chance AI leads to human extinction within three decades.

32. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "Pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4."

33. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    *If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies*: argues building superintelligence would lead to human extinction; says creation "can still be prevented".

34. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Call for an indefinite, worldwide moratorium on large training runs, enforced by international agreement and monitoring of hardware.

35. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die."

36. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "In the 2030s, intelligence and energy… are going to become wildly abundant."

37. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "2027 may see the arrival of robots that can do tasks in the real world."

38. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "2026 will likely see the arrival of systems that can figure out novel insights."

39. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    The goal is to make intelligence and energy extremely cheap (manifesto).

40. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "We believe Artificial Intelligence can save lives – if we let it." "We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives."

41. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    NLLB-200 improves translation quality by an average of 44% (BLEU) over prior state of the art, across 200 languages.

42. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Seha Virtual Hospital is the world's largest virtual hospital (Guinness World Records).

43. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    MBZUAI is "the world's first graduate-level, research-based AI university".

44. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Omar Al Olama was the world's first minister for AI (Oct 2017).

45. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    First 200MW phase "in place and ready at some point in the third quarter" of 2026.

46. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Data-centre electricity roughly doubles from 485 TWh (2025) to 950 TWh (2030), about 3% of global demand.

47. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    AI-based fault detection can cut outage durations by 30–50%.

48. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "Concerns that AI could accelerate climate change appear overstated, as do expectations that AI alone will address the issue."

49. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Data-centre electricity about 415 TWh (1.5% of global) in 2024, rising to about 945 TWh by 2030.

50. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "Early evidence shows no effect on overall employment, but some signs of declining demand for early-career workers in some AI-exposed occupations."

51. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    170m jobs created and 92m displaced by 2030, net +78m; 22% of jobs change.

52. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    About 40% of global jobs exposed to AI (about 60% in advanced economies); roughly half of exposed advanced-economy jobs may benefit, half may see lower demand. Risk of wider inequality.

53. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Neuralink: 21 trial participants; "zero serious device-related adverse events" so far.

54. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Content Credentials are "not a cure-all for misinformation". They show provenance, not truth.

55. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Eventually an IAEA-like international authority may be needed for systems above a capability threshold.

56. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Experimental evidence of "alignment faking" in Claude 3 Opus under artificial conditions (12% prompted; 78% alignment-faking reasoning after RL). Authors: does not show malicious goals.

57. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    12 companies published or updated frontier AI safety frameworks in 2025.

58. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    On loss of control: "Current systems lack the capabilities to pose such risks, but they are improving in relevant areas." Models increasingly distinguish test from deployment.

59. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    More than half of researchers say misinformation, authoritarian control and worsening inequality warrant substantial or extreme concern.

60. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Median researcher: 5% chance of "extremely bad outcomes (e.g. human extinction)". 38–51% give at least 10%. About 68% think good outcomes more likely than bad.

61. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

62. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Human-level AI / AGI by 2029; the Singularity (a "millionfold" expansion of intelligence) by 2045.

63. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Superintelligence: "any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of humans in virtually all domains of interest".

64. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    AI progress to 2030 could plateau, continue or accelerate. Capabilities are "jagged".

65. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Full automation of all occupations at 50% probability around 2116.

66. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    Aggregate forecast: 50% chance that unaided machines outperform humans at every task by 2047; 10% by 2027.

67. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "There's absolutely no way … that autoregressive LLMs, the type that we know today, will reach human intelligence." Scaling "is saturating".

68. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    After powerful AI arrives, AI could compress "the next 50-100 years of biological progress" into 5–10 years.

69. Tracker claim · No single place · 28 September 2026

    "Powerful AI" (smarter than a Nobel laureate across most fields, able to act autonomously for days) "could come as early as 2026, though there are also ways it could take much longer."

70. Article · No single place · 16 July 2026

    July 2026: an evaluation agent, a leaky sandbox, then Hugging Face

71. Article · No single place · 9 July 2026

    GPT-5.6 Sol: the flagship released in July 2026

72. Article · No single place · 7 August 2025

    GPT-5: one system that chooses when to think

73. Article · No single place · 27 February 2025

    GPT-4.5: a larger chat model, not a reasoning model

74. Article · No single place · 12 September 2024

    o1: models that take longer to think

75. Article · No single place · 13 May 2024

    GPT-4o: the same family, faster, and on the free tier

76. Article · No single place · 14 March 2023

    GPT-4: the first big step after ChatGPT