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Comment by Alexander Meinke

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Head of research at Apollo Research, an AI-safety organization focused on evaluating advanced AI systems.
If you ask the model developers, Was the AI plotting to take over the world during training?, you want the answer to be a resounding no. The actual answer is: I don't know. Nobody checked.
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Alexander Meinke, quoted in Matteo Wong, “It May Be Time to Panic About AI,” The Atlantic, August 12, 2026.
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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models
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AI Verified Meinke says developers did not check whether models were plotting takeover during training, directly supporting the need for pre-deployment frontier-model safety evaluations. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Correct answer is for: Meinke's warning that developers did not perform this safety check strongly supports requiring labs to publish such evaluations before deployment. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The Atlantic (Aug. 12, 2026) directly attributes the stored wording to Apollo Research head Alexander Meinke; wording and date match the article. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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