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Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters
Publisher description: Letter: Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient
The Guardian | Oct 6, 2026 | Guardian staff reporter
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Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests (OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing, 28 September). It is extremely hard to provide evidence for such low probabilities, even for aircraft that at worst might kill 1,000 people in a single accident.
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