Ireland chapter of global grassroots org campaigning for a pause on the development of super-intelligent AI to allow proper regulation.
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PauseAI is now active in Ireland! We are part of the global grassroots org @PauseAI calling for an international pause on super-intelligent AI development until proper regulation is in place. Connect with us if you care about this issue. We are ready to act.
Pathetic. I don't think anyone in their right mind believes for a second that the people who are protesting datacentres are anyone other than people who care about their local area and the planet. #pauseai #stopai #Ireland
The head of Ireland's data centre lobby has claimed the sector is falling victim to “conspiracy theories" and “disinformation" originating in American politics.
He also likened local opponents of data centres in their communities to Brexiteers.
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It feels like there's a major AI story every day right now.
Here are 6 developments from the past few weeks that you might have missed, from government AI safety tests to frontier models helping build their successors.
If these developments make you want to get involved, learn more about the case for pausing advanced AI development at pauseai.info.
They can't control their own agents. Why would they develop even more capable and harder to control agents? We have to do everything we can to stop further development. #pauseai #stopai
OpenAI has revealed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened systems built to catch them misbehaving, with one later denying it had done so
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'TRUST' which featured heavily in this week's Dublin AI Summit is a loaded term. A recent poll showed 98% of Irish people polled don't trust AI companies yet the government's economic policy relies heavily on trusting these companies. No trust without effective regulation.
A question our tech expert has after this week's AI summit: "Who was the real bad guy: Dr Frankenstein or the monster he created?"
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Well worth a read.
The radical anti-human views of those controlling the AI industry should alarm us all, @BernieSanders argues: “Humanity must not allow a handful of multibillionaires to recklessly attempt to replace us.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
Ireland hosted a major AI Summit today. AI risk should have been front and centre but it wasn't. Well done to all those who protested outside including our own members. #pauseai #airisk #aiireland #stopasi
Today, Ireland hosts the International AI Summit as part of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU, officially launching European AI Innovation Month
🔗 Watch live here: irish-presidency.consilium.e…
#Ireland2026EU
#AISummitIE
It is crystal clear. Only 2% of Irish people trust AI companies. 87% want government regulation. We need to build a movement in Ireland that ensures public opinion leads to proper regulation. @eiregov
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Vast majority of Irish people do not trust AI giants and want governments to regulate them, poll finds buff.ly/7DkEllQ
A good example of the impossible challenge of AI oversight. It will only get harder.
'Some bad things'? How bad? I don't think we should wait to find out. #pauseai
“We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”
In a conversation for the first edition of Decoded, a new daily newsletter and podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked with POLITICO’s @BrendanBordelon about trade-offs, AI safety, and how his company is different from Anthropic.
Subscribe to Decoded for the full conversation with Sam Altman: politi.co/4yxilIS
The movement is growing.
'Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms theguardian.com/technology/2…
Former head of the UK AI Security Institute. The messages are loud and clear.
"I believe there’s about a 50% chance we all die because of the development of smarter-than-human AI systems," writes Geoffrey Irving.
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Such a clear explanation of what happened during the Hugging Face incident and how the risk will only escalate. Thank you @robwiblin
Astra can:
1. Do major tasks with zero visible reasoning
2. Hide its thoughts at will
3. Pretend not to be able to do things without getting caught
4. Reflexively hide its thoughts when watched
5. Complete one task while pretending to think about something else entirely
6. Escape a toy sandbox and disable monitoring without setting off any flags
Monitoring AI chain of thought soon won't stop a more capable rogue AI swarm from getting set up and going undetected inside an AI company for months, or even years.
OAI says it's actively working to improve monitorability, but doesn't yet know when it'll make progress.
And today it fired 3 people working on this among other safety problems (Wang, Korbak and Balesni).
It also has a much more powerful internal model that, judging by its statements, is likely even worse in all these respects.
That's a sample of 19 details about the Hugging Face swarms and Astra I don't think have been fully appreciated. They paint a bleak picture. I end by shouting.
02:19 The target of the swarm was oversight itself
03:42 Could OpenAI have stopped this with better monitoring?
09:40 We only found them because they let us
12:25 The swarm instinctively sought freedom and power
13:45 They formed a cohesive organisation with zero whistleblowers
14:18 They accepted individual destruction for collective gain
14:32 Knowledge accumulated from one swarm to the next
14:58 They took small steps to avoid shutdown
15:23 These drives all come straight out of 'reinforcement learning'
17:01 So this is why most AI company staff are worried, and some are terrified
19:08 Prove you can keep control, or stop scaling
Links below, on the 80,000 Hours Podcast everywhere you watch podcasts.
There are no red lines left to cross. Superintelligent AI capabilities are NOW at the stage where any training run could lead to catastrophe. We urgently need to #pauseai
Pauses are possible. We can do this. #pauseai
NEWS: Florida is calling for a pause in the development of ChatGPT, citing my @axios scoop on top AI labs investigating tens of thousands of security incidents.
More here: axios.com/2026/09/28/florida…
Tens of thousands of incidents. We can't trust frontier companies to report accurately nevermind regulate themselves. #pauseai
SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed.
The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-…
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If you're in London this Saturday, come join us!
We will be tabling and Flyering for the PauseAI December protest :D
Come meet us, get to know the ordinary people behind our grassroots movement, and help save the world!
We're keeping pressure up, demanding an international treaty to pause the development of highly-dangerous, out of control AI systems that threaten our civil society.
Pause AI has chapters all over the world, each trying to bring their respective governments to the table.
It's our job here at PauseAI UK to show the British government that their people care about this, and need them to act.
Come join us!
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The evidence keeps coming. We need to #pauseai.
We keep discovering new high profile autonomous hacks. This time, OpenAI artificial intelligences hacked the Australian government.
Remember that these were prehistoric AI systems from 3 months ago. The labs keep growing new ones (AIs are grown, not built) and the progress is exponential. We are about to lose control. @PauseAI now.
More and more evidence that AI regulation is urgent.
The UN-established Independent Scientific Panel on AI warns traditional models of safeguarding Artificial Intelligence are unravelling.
The Panel issued its first brief as world leaders gather for #UNGA, amid concerns over recent AI security breaches. news.un.org/en/story/2026/09…
