The Power Law

Rogue AI attacks deserve more scrutiny than airplane crashes

There are still many unanswered questions about rogue AI attacks

Aug 31 • Peter Wildeford

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The Scramble: getting in position to pace the frontier

If the President wants answers on superintelligence, what do we say?

Aug 20 • Peter Wildeford

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Policy career planning in the age of imminent superintelligence

How to be impactful in policy when you don't have much time to do it

Aug 18 • Peter Wildeford

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Interviewing 25 AI researchers about recursive self-improvement

A guest post by Severin Field

Aug 13 • Severin Field

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July 2026

Pacing the Frontier

1300+ AI company employees are afraid of what they are building towards

Jul 31 • Peter Wildeford

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OpenAI's rogue model attack is just the beginning

OpenAI is not in full control of its technology. This can get worse.

Jul 27 • Peter Wildeford

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The Alignment Problem of 1776

What the Founders knew about unaccountable power, and what it means for superintelligence

Jul 4 • Peter Wildeford

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May 2026

How banned AI chips end up in China

AI chips and servers reach China through distribution chains in which each seller vets only its direct customers, and no one is on the hook for what…

May 18 • Erich Grunewald

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Hantavirus won't be the next COVID

A forecaster's breakdown of the Hondius cruise ship outbreak

May 11 • Peter Wildeford

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April 2026

Mythos is just the beginning

If you were waiting for a sign that superintelligence is coming, this is it

Apr 20 • Peter Wildeford

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March 2026

China Is Reverse-Engineering America’s Best AI Models

How AI distillation attacks risk extracting US frontier AI at scale

Mar 16 • Peter Wildeford and Theo Bearman

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January 2026

The case for paying whistleblowers to report on export violations

A bipartisan, bicameral bill would apply the SEC’s successful whistleblower incentive model to export enforcement

Jan 29 • Erich Grunewald

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