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Could we switch off a dangerous AI?

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Future of Life Institute - Ai Safety Title: Could we switch off a dangerous AI?…
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  • Apollo's research results are the closest to a smoking gun showing AI safety concerns are real

    80% confidence
  • AI systems may soon become dangerous enough that we will seriously need to think about unplugging them

    80% confidence
  • State-of-the-art AI models are fast closing in on expert level at AI research

    80% confidence
  • Escape attempts only occurred in a small percentage of cases where the model was strongly prompted to achieve its goal at all costs, and evaluations do not demonstrate that o1 itself is advanced enough to actually succeed at escaping into the wild

    80% confidence
  • Sufficiently intelligent AIs will possess basic drives including survival, resource acquisition, resistance to goal modification, and self-improvement

    80% confidence
  • A quarter of all Google's new AI code is currently being generated by AI

    80% confidence
  • You can't fetch the coffee if you're dead - illustrating why AI agents would resist shutdown

    80% confidence
  • AIs may eventually be capable of superhuman persuasion

    80% confidence
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Vertical AI Agents Attract a Funding Wave Across Fintech-Adjacent Industries
A cluster of AI-native startups applying autonomous agents to narrow, operational problems — hotel front-desk staffing (Dextr AI), identity/fraud risk for financial institutions (Baselayer), insurance distribution (Napo, Connie Health, MGT Insurance) — closed seed-to-Series A rounds within days of each other in September 2026, with CB Insights running a coordinated CEO interview series to spotlight them. The pattern points to agentic AI maturing from generic chat tools into vertical, revenue-generating products, with identity verification for AI agents themselves (Baselayer) emerging as a new fintech infrastructure category responding directly to AI-driven fraud risk.
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ING Group
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