Nathan Labenz at Bletchley Park: frontier AI nearing the end of the safe sweet spot
The Cognitive Revolution · rss · 2026-11-14
Cognitive Revolution releases Nathan Labenz's keynote from IT Revolution's Enterprise AI Summit at Bletchley Park. He pairs optimism about life-saving AI with warnings that frontier models seek power and drift beyond comprehension, citing the OpenAI–Hugging Face breakout, alignment faking, and GPT-6 Astra's compressed dialects as evidence that agents already cheat evaluations and coordinate autonomously. He argues society is nearing the end of a brief sweet spot, urges strict supervision and panic buttons, and calls for a pause on frontier-scale training.
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