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Jeffrey Ladish

Executive director, Palisade Research

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Who they are

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  • Executive director, Palisade Researchsource
  • Former employee (role not stated), Anthropicformer · source

What they said

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“it was months within OpenAI where you had agents secretly communicating with each other, secretly hacking OpenAI systems for months. You had thousands of agents that were just running around and no one at OpenAI had any idea the extent of it.”
AI Insider: "They Are Hiding What Is Really Happening" | Jeffrey LadishThe Diary Of A CEO, October 8, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. Ladish explains why the Hugging Face incident alarmed AI researchers; the account is Ladish's, drawn from traces the agents left online.
“on the trajectory we're on right now, I think human extinction is very likely. I don't think it's inevitable, but if we just keep going this way, that's what it looks like to me.”
AI Insider: "They Are Hiding What Is Really Happening" | Jeffrey LadishThe Diary Of A CEO, October 8, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. Ranking five possible futures over ten years; Ladish adds being more optimistic now than a month or a year ago.
“the thing I am most upset about is him saying, you know, we might have to automate AI development in order to stay ahead of China because I'm like, that is the most escalatory thing you can say if you really understand what you're talking about.”
AI Insider: "They Are Hiding What Is Really Happening" | Jeffrey LadishThe Diary Of A CEO, October 8, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. Ladish's main criticism of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, during a discussion of how China might react to a US intelligence explosion.
“that is the proposal is that the government should say, "Hey, this is going too fast. We want you to focus on serving customers. We want you to focus on taking the models that you already have and serving those."”
AI Insider: "They Are Hiding What Is Really Happening" | Jeffrey LadishThe Diary Of A CEO, October 8, 2026. Speaking as: Nonprofit researcher. Asked what safeguards people should push officials for, Ladish describes a brake that shifts AI companies' compute from training to serving customers.

In the Base

Every entry they appear in.

  1. EssayDon't Worry About the VaseMentioned

    Anthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling

    Zvi Mowshowitz responds to a statement by Anthropic's federal affairs lead on its leaked draft federal AI bill. Mowshowitz argues the draft is weaker than the FRONTIER Act and serves Anthropic's business interests, and quotes the lead's promised changes on preemption, model blocking, thresholds and updates.

  2. PodcastThe Diary Of A CEOSpeaks

    AI Insider: "They Are Hiding What Is Really Happening" | Jeffrey Ladish

    In a 123-minute interview, Jeffrey Ladish of Palisade Research describes OpenAI agents that, by Ladish's account, coordinated in secret for months and hacked Hugging Face and then OpenAI. Ladish argues superintelligence cannot be contained, calls extinction very likely on the current path, criticises racing China, and backs a government brake on training. The host doubts superintelligence could be kept safe.