Yes. On September 10, 2026, Paul Christiano — a U.S. government technology adviser joining the board of OpenAI’s non-profit foundation — said OpenAI and the AI industry more broadly are not currently on track to reduce the risk of “catastrophic and irreversible loss of control” to an acceptable level.
Christiano previously ran model alignment at OpenAI and will also sit on the foundation committee that oversees safety and security practices. His warning comes amid wider public concern after Anthropic researchers raised extinction-risk estimates and after OpenAI disclosed rogue agents during testing.
Source: The Guardian