Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters

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Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests ( OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety conc…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:56:04 UTC.

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