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The AI Safety Window We Might Be Missing: Why Transparent Thinking Could Save Us All

A groundbreaking research collaboration reveals how current AI systems offer an unprecedented—but potentially fleeting—opportunity for safety oversight

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Amer Altaf
Jul 29, 2025
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Imagine if you could read every thought that crosses an AI system’s “mind” before it takes action. What if you could catch a malicious AI in the act of planning something harmful, simply by monitoring its internal reasoning process? This isn’t science fiction—it’s happening right now, and according to a major new research paper from top AI safety instit…

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