Seven independent experts graded every frontier AI lab on safety. The best grade was a C+. Three labs got an F. The best existential-safety grade was a D+, and nobody reached a C. And the labs that used to promise to stop at red lines? They rewrote the red lines.
Future of Life Institute (official AI Safety Index, Summer 2026). Recorded 18 August 2026. Our ruling means: we tried to break it and could not.
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TRUE, BUTBerkeley News (UC Berkeley), headline on a 9 Oct 2026 story about an arXiv preprint; reached the Hacker News front page
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