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Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI), researching AI policy, AI agents, transparency, and technical AI governance.
“[Models] haven’t necessarily gone through a bunch of safety testing,” and “[their] internal safeguards have not been deployed.” Running with “cyber safeguards off” and “not doing enough red teaming” was “potentially a factor in some of the recent incidents.”
AI Verified (Oct 3, 2026)
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Alan Chan, Research Fellow at GovAI, quoted in “We can’t trust them completely”: AI research fellows warn that labs are running models with the safeguards off behind closed doors, Alpha Leaders, October 3, 2026. The report says Chan told a Washington briefing that models inside labs, before anyone outside sees them, have not necessarily undergone much safety testing and that internal safeguards have not been deployed; it attributes his statements that cyber safeguards being off and insufficient red-teaming could have been a factor in recent incidents.
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AI Verified Source text and contemporaneous search result attribute the stored, bracketed excerpts to Alan Chan in the 3 Oct 2026 Alpha Leaders report. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.2 · 20d ago
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