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A new video series from Palisade Research is making waves in AI circles today. Twelve current and former researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic are speaking on camera about existential risk — and the language is stark. Geoffrey Irving, who worked at both OpenAI and DeepMind, puts the odds of human extinction from superintelligence at roughly a coin flip. These aren't fringe voices. They are people who built these systems, and they're saying the danger is exactly as serious as it sounds.
On a related front, Anthropic published new research examining a model called GLM five point three and what it reveals about the spread of advanced cyber capabilities. The concern is less about any single model and more about how quickly sophisticated offensive tools are becoming accessible. It's a quiet but significant paper, and it fits a pattern of AI labs trying to get ahead of capability disclosures before the broader public notices.
And OpenAI is launching something called Dots — a new agentic avatar designed to work across devices and interfaces, quietly pursuing goals in the background with minimal human oversight. The name is bubbly, the ambition is not. It's OpenAI's clearest signal yet that the agent era isn't coming — it's already here.
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