AIArtificial IntelligenceExistential risk Hardening against AI takeover is difficult, but we should try Over a decade ago, Eliezer Yudkowsky famously ran the AI box experiment, in which a…Otto BartenNovember 5, 2025
AIArtificial IntelligenceExistential risk AI Offense Defense Balance in a Multipolar World By Otto Barten and Sammy Martin Executive summary We examine whether intent-aligned defensive AI can…Otto BartenJuly 16, 2025
AIArtificial IntelligenceExistential risk Yes RAND, AI Could Really Cause Human Extinction Last month, think tank RAND published a report titled On the Extinction Risk from Artificial…Otto BartenJune 20, 2025
AIArtificial IntelligenceExistential risk AI has passed the Turing test In 1950, Alan Turing asked himself the question: "can machines think?" Turing started, as mathematicians…Otto BartenApril 3, 2025
Events AI Safety Debate with Prof. Yoshua Bengio (9 Feb) Progress in AI has been stellar and does not seem to slow down. If we…Otto BartenFebruary 5, 2025
AIArtificial IntelligenceExistential riskGlobal Media Our proposal in TIME: a Conditional AI Safety Treaty Last week, we proposed the Conditional AI Safety Treaty in TIME Magazine as a solution…Otto BartenNovember 20, 2024
AIExistential risk What does the breakdown of scaling laws imply? It is now public knowledge that multiple LLMs significantly larger than GPT-4 have been trained,…Otto BartenNovember 12, 2024
Events The Future of AI – Too Much to Handle? (6 June) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMhtvcQuV_M Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly in the last years. If this rise will continue,…Otto BartenJuly 3, 2024
AIExistential risk Luck (AI Safety Summit Talks closing) This is a transcript of (most of) the closing talk by Otto Barten of the…Otto BartenMay 22, 2024
Events AI Safety Summit Talks with Yoshua Bengio (21 May) The Existential Risk Observatory will host new AI Safety Summit Talks with Yoshua Bengio! Many…Otto BartenApril 30, 2024