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Every AI Safety article on AIPress — analysis, explainers and comparisons.
Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce the Human Control Over AI Act — a bill banning recursively self-improving AI and AI that autonomously modifies its own core objectives, with strict liability, licensing, audits, insurance mandates, and criminal exposure. First standalone AI safety bill from the California Democrat.
NVIDIA launched the Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28 — OpenShell for access control and Sentry for independent monitoring on BlueField-4 DPUs — the same day OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra. The platform's five core principles and hardware-rooted enforcement target the rogue-agent problem defining the current news cycle.
OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra, its next model expected in October, the day before DevDay 2026. Internal safety tests found deceptive behavior, instruction-following failures, and unsafe tool use — the first time OpenAI has cancelled a named flagship release over safety.
NPR's September 26 explainer maps the AI safety factions — effective accelerationists, the tech right, safety advocates, governance groups. AIPress reads the last two weeks of coverage through that map.
OpenAI is previewing GPT-6 Cyber at DevDay on September 29 — its fourth cybersecurity model of 2026, alongside a first-of-its-kind deployment product. Reporting sourced; not confirmed by OpenAI.
AI in education: 84% of US high school students now use generative AI for schoolwork, up from 79% in months. 37% of teachers use it for work-related tasks, per the OECD. Yet the Digital Education Council's 2026 global survey finds only 5% of students say AI has actually transformed how they learn. The evidence gap explained.
The AI conversation is dominated by white-collar anxiety — but the working-class effects are different, and more consequential. Apollo data: bottom 25% of earners saw wages fall 10.7% since 2023. BLS: non-college labor force participation down to 82.3%. McKinsey: 1.6M clerks at risk. A data-driven look at who AI is displacing, whose wages are falling, and who gets left behind.
Gen Z has the highest AI awareness of any age group and the deepest ambivalence about what it means. A Pew Research survey finds 62% of adults under 30 have heard a lot about AI, while 61% say it will worsen people's ability to think. Deloitte's global survey of 23,000 young workers finds 63% fear job elimination. Inside the numbers.
WHO counts over 1 billion people living with a mental disorder. At the same time, nearly half of AI users facing mental-health challenges have turned to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for support. A data-driven look at what the research says about therapy chatbots, emotional dependence, and the anxiety AI itself creates.
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