Join Us Saturday, September 12
An ex-OpenAI researcher’s influential nonprofit is now smack in the middle of AI’s doom debate

Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks. That has begun to change.Researcher Joe Benton announced this week that he had left Anthropic for Barnes’ nonprofit METR, writing that he worries about “extinction-level risks” from the tech. The comments came after Jacob Coxon, another researcher, stoked those fears nationwide with a viral post announcing his own departure from Anthropic…

Finance news

View More
A former Google DeepMind safety researcher explains the frightening difference between AI and other threats like nuclear war and asteroids

Climate change can’t anticipate our next move. An asteroid can’t dodge us. And while humans can be adversaries in a nuclear war, the fallout that follows isn’t trying to outsmart anyone.For Business Insider’s video series “AI Architects,” Ramana Kumar told Business Insider in May 2025 that superintelligent AI could be…

Business

View More

Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has reportedly sold a waterfront Maryland estate for $7.2 million. The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home on Gibson Island changed hands in an off-market sale on Aug. 4, less than three months after Powell concluded his eight-year term as chair of the Federal Reserve, Realtor.com reported,…

Markets

View More

Investing

View More

Latest News

See All