AI Safety Institute staff signed off with stress as frontier testing takes mental toll - FT
financialtimes · reddit · 2026-09-22
FT exclusive: multiple staff at the UK AI Safety Institute, the global leader in independent frontier model testing, have been signed off work with stress and are receiving counselling. Tight schedules for testing unreleased models and alarm over rapid capability growth have driven burnout, per four sources. Staff at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind have publicly reported similar issues, with top researchers quitting over the mental toll or concerns their work was unsafe to release.
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