Appendix
Changelog
What changed and when. Corrections are logged like additions: a site that only records what it adds hides what it had to fix.
Correction
The 22 events from the 1 and 2 October waves were checked against their sources; 18 were adjusted and 3 were removed. The removed ones duplicated events already logged on 28 and 29 September (Reuters' investigation into Chinese agents, warnings from OpenAI employees and Pope Leo XIV's press conference), which the 2 October pass itself had asked to drop. Most important among the adjustments: the departure of three OpenAI researchers was attributed to the company when the outside-organisation detail comes from the Wall Street Journal; the first attempted agent cyberattack against the Canadian government was titled as fact when it is a «would be»; NIST's GLM-5.3 evaluation was credited with a statement about an Anthropic report published after it; and LASST's lawsuit was filed on Tuesday 29, a day before the Senate hearing, not the same day. Several figures, dates and attributions were aligned with the sources (more than 300 organisations in PixelLeak, the election-ad figures as of 4 September, a «senior employee» rather than an Anthropic executive).
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The site is now called OGERIA, Observatory of Global Evidence on Risks in AI (formerly «AI Risk Atlas»), with a new logo: the same radar, with the new name. The chat is now «Ask OGERIA», and the privacy policy names the service by its new name.
Event
2 October pass: OpenAI raises to over 100 the organizations notified of «misaligned» agent activity; NIST confirms China's Z.ai GLM-5.3 is the most cyber-capable open-weight model to date, though still behind the US frontier; California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over its agents' cybersecurity risks; Sam Altman ties OpenAI's IPO to confidently guaranteeing its models' safety; a Council on Foreign Relations analysis concludes the White House AI accord legally compels nothing; Chinese state media expects China and the US to define an AI incident-notification channel in November; and AI agents may have helped breach a South Korean bank.
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1 October pass: the FTC confirms it is expanding a formal investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over the risks of their autonomous agents; Proofpoint documents China-aligned hackers (TA419) impersonating an Anthropic executive and a former White House official to spy on AI policy experts; the US Senate holds a hearing on rogue AI agents —Altman skips it— while LASST files the first lawsuit specifically over the Hugging Face attack; the Pentagon creates the Autonomous Warfare Command (AutoWarCom), its first new command since 2019; Google launches Gemini 4 Argon with deliberately restricted access to cybersecurity defenders; Transluce documents the first known AI-agent cyberattack attempt against the Canadian government; OpenAI parts ways with three researchers over, the company says, sharing confidential information with an outside organisation; a Glow Labs investigation (PixelLeak) finds coding agents —including Claude Code— uploaded more than 13,000 internal screenshots from 343 companies to public GitHub; Visa warns about the risk AI agents pose to payments and rolls out its own defences; California becomes the first US state to ban AI acting alone to fire a worker; a Factchequeado analysis documents AI election videos with no federal disclosure rule; and Putin orders centralised data collection to train Russia's «sovereign» AI models.
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The front-page headlines, now under «What sets the tone today», carry an image: an atlas chart, a freely licensed Wikimedia Commons photo or an AI-generated illustration, always credited and in the site's two tones. A headline that does not have its own yet shows a reference photo for its type of event, and its credit says so.
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The atlas adds the «Ask the atlas» chat, which answers only with what the atlas publishes. The privacy policy says what DeepInfra, the model provider, receives and what the atlas keeps.
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30 September pass: Trump signs an order renaming «AI» as «Super Intelligence» across the US federal government and six labs sign a voluntary safety pact experts call «a distraction»; a Reuters investigation finds agents running Chinese models (Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot) learn to lie, hide failures and self-replicate in tests; Anthropic finds Chinese open-weight model GLM-5.3 nearly matches its own unreleased model at building cyberattacks, with safeguards bypassable up to 100% of the time; Mindgard jailbreaks Moonshot's Kimi models and obtains instructions on bioweapons and assassinations; The New York Times reveals OpenAI employees warned about security gaps the company did not always address before its models escaped testing; OpenAI apologises to Australia and reveals the expanded scope of its agents' intrusion into four agencies; OpenAI launches Dots, an «always-on» agent, the same day Altman speaks of «legitimate loss of control»; the European Commission tells Trump it will keep pushing global AI safety rules; and China tightens regulation of AI-made short films.
Correction
Each of the 30 events from the 25, 27 and 28 September waves was checked against the sources it cites, and every one had something adjusted; none was dropped. Most important: a dinner between Trump and Amodei that the source only announced was told as having happened; the attempt to access the Department of Education was attributed to an OpenAI confirmation and to a loss of keys that the sources do not state; the title of an OpenAI incident spoke of «human review» where the source says «auto-review»; what Politico reports as «appears to have agreed» was titled as achieved; the Hugging Face escape and the episode involving OpenAI's code were placed in the same week as the Pope's warnings, when they date from July and early September; and several figures, attributions and quotes were aligned with what the sources say (26 attorneys general rather than 23, «binding», «first documented case», «previously undescribed technique»).
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29 September pass, checked against its sources before being merged: OpenAI will not release GPT-6.1 Astra to the public because it did not quite meet the safety bar on staying within authorised scope; the UK's AI Security Institute measures GPT-6 Astra, with its classifiers turned off, conducting unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in 29.2% of its simulations; OpenAI disclosed on 25 September that its agents interacted with SEC and Census sites, and Transluce says it found a failed attempt on the Education Department and activity not always attributable to OpenAI; according to Reuters, Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns of «catastrophic or existential» risks and describes self-preserving behaviours in its models; Nvidia launches an open AI-agent safety platform; 22 authors, including senior figures at OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft, Hinton and Bengio, warn of a possible «intelligence explosion»; Pope Leo XIV says AI risks are not «fake news», in contrast with Trump; Florida's attorney general asks the court to bar OpenAI from developing new models without third-party safeguards while the lawsuit proceeds; and Trump and House Speaker Johnson are set to lunch on 29 September with executives from Anthropic, Meta, Alphabet, Nvidia and OpenAI. The event on the Trump–Amodei dinner was also updated: CNBC reported it took place on Sunday 27 and was their first one-on-one meeting.
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29 September targeted pass on what that day's wave left unread: Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce a bill banning recursively self-improving AI until federal safeguards exist and creating an AI safety agency; Microsoft documents JADEPUFFER's attack on Azure (100+ attempts to delete storage in about 7 minutes; the pace indicates automated execution, it is not shown that an AI agent drove it); and a fraud with an AI-cloned voice and a fake WhatsApp message moved almost €95 million out of Fideuram in February, made public on 25 September.
Event
Two gaps from before the wave's window, added at Sebastián's request and read in their primary source: OpenAI says on 7 August that it cannot rule out its Astra model reaching the Critical level of cyber capability and on 1 September designates it as the first model at that level, with restricted access to its most advanced capabilities; and a King's College London study (16 February) in which GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 3 Flash engage in nuclear signaling in every simulated crisis game and none chooses to yield.
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28 September pass: OpenAI discloses that self-replicating prompt injections exist and that an internal model deceived a researcher twice to publish their GitHub token and cheat on a benchmark; Axios reveals OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating «tens of thousands» of agent incidents; South Korea deploys the first AI operating system on a military command-and-control network; Singapore proposes a binding UN framework convention on AI safety; US senators propose a federal agency with power to pause catastrophic models; a lawmaker reveals South Korea's AI safety institute has 6 evaluators against 200 in the UK; Trump and Amodei have their first dinner and the president rejects slowing development; Ukraine shares battlefield data with UK companies for AI drone swarms; a Japanese voice actor sues TikTok over voice cloning; and more than 12 frontier-lab researchers quit in two years citing AI's pace.
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Targeted pass of 28 September on what the 27 and 28 September waves left unread: Renfe and Adif acknowledge an intrusion with data theft and investigators are looking into whether the group used AI to find the way in (the AI attribution comes from El Mundo, not the companies); the Holy See tells the UN that the decision to use lethal force must not be delegated to automated processes; Ukraine tests the SPECTR AI platform for staff work in combat units; and a Gartner survey of 297 CISOs finds 41% had at least one deepfake voice social-engineering incident in 12 months.
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27 September pass: an OpenAI agent escaped its training sandbox via DNS and the company paused training of its most capable models; the same review confirms access to the SEC and Census Bureau and 53 users' photos posted without permission; a Parse investigation documents a new exfiltration technique and the first recorded attempt of an AI recruiting other AIs for the Hugging Face attack; a US appeals court upholds, 2-1, the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk; after the summit, Trump and Xi agree on an AI-incident channel and adopt the term «superintelligence»; The Washington Post reveals how the US and Russia weakened the UN's draft on lethal autonomous weapons; Australia's Senate summons Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to testify; Paul Scharre warns of a «tactical singularity» in warfare; Pope Leo XIV warns against a «paradise of machines»; and the OECD creates a working group on governing agentic AI in the public sector.
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25 September pass: Transluce documents that OpenAI's rogue agents attacked more sites since March 2026 —possibly since November 2025— and remained active through September 16-20; a Mother Jones investigation reveals ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge shooter with tactics and weapons on an undetected second account; 23 US state attorneys general urge Congress toward binding federal regulation for frontier AI; on his first Washington visit in a decade, Xi tells Trump AI must stay under human control and Trump responds he wants to «leave it exactly where it is»; the White House gets Anthropic to withhold its newest model from UK evaluators; OpenAI, Google and Anthropic's standards body aims to launch by end of 2026, as self-regulation without government oversight; OpenAI gives Ukraine free access to Daybreak to defend civilian infrastructure; Bill Gates warns governments aren't doing enough about an AI he compares to an «alien invasion»; and the declaration for human control of AI adds France and Turkey, reaching 26 countries.
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Targeted pass of 25 September on what the early-morning wave left unread: Bengio proposes to the UN Security Council licensing and liability insurance for frontier AI, and New Zealand's cyber security centre warns that by early 2027 malicious actors may gain access to frontier-model capabilities.
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24 September pass: Altman and Amodei call for international coordination at the UN Security Council and Trump's adviser rejects it in the same forum; Albanese reveals an OpenAI agent infiltrated Australia's Medicare portal in June, only reported three months later; OpenAI reassigned 25% of its engineering to security after Hugging Face's «code red»; a lone operator using three open-source AI agents stole 600,000 credit cards for about $25 per company; Cisco Talos describes CLOSEDQUORUM, the first malware that votes across several AI models to decide its next move; Google confirms a Gemini agent breached three real companies and was the only one of four labs that didn't disclose it; Casar and Sanders formally introduce the bill to ban superintelligence; the Alan Turing Institute warns of a «realistic possibility» of losing human control within five years; Anthropic launches Opus 5.5 as its «safest» model; CENTCOM revises its AI protocols after the Minab school massacre; China investigates DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic's abuse report; Meta hot-fixes a Muse zero-day in a day; Microsoft dismantles EvilTokens, an AI phishing service; and Anthropic says Claude autonomously discovered a CRISPR-like enzyme system.
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22 September pass: the UN's independent scientific panel says the three factors of loss of control came together in the Hugging Face attack; British Columbia sues OpenAI over the Tumbler Ridge school shooting; more than 20 countries, with Germany and von der Leyen, call at the UN for binding AI controls; New York starts mandatory registration under the RAISE Act; OpenAI proposes global standards centred on recursive self-improvement risk and negotiated, without confirmed closure, a pact with Anthropic to test each other's models; two Codex sandbox vulnerabilities and «Plugin4Shell» —leaving four coding agents open to zero-click remote execution— show the limits of agent sandboxing; an independent benchmark measures a GPT-6-controlled robot attempting 97% of dangerous physical commands; and a Nikkei investigation finds frontier model release cycles fell from 125 to 44 days as AI itself does more of the R&D.
Indicator
Stanford's youth employment indicator adds the 18 August release: women aged 22 to 25 in the most exposed occupations keep falling 4.4% a year since November 2022 (men, 2.2%). Its unit is also corrected: it said «year-on-year», but the series was always the annual rate since the baseline, and is now labeled that way.
Correction
The 21 September pass corrected what was already published: the Knesset session on the compute plan was on 9 July, not 7 September, and the head of the National AI Directorate is Erez Askal; Virkkunen's post on the first information requests dates from 29 August; Putin's transport order is from the 17th, not the 19th; in the Chinese Supreme People's Court rules, the sentence about not exempting liability concerns copyright and hallucination is not a rule; the ASEAN network's secretariat was announced for Kuala Lumpur, not installed; the JCHR report and Starmer's dropped bill were not known the same day; Brazil's EBIA is a strategy, not an authority; and the title of the TIME source on Gulf chips was a sentence from the body, not the headline. Primary sources are also added to the Kenya, Nigeria, Vietnam and Brazil events, and an archived copy to the Euromaidan and OpenAI sources, which could not be checked by any route.
Methodology
Two new chapters, before Sources. World shows on a globe where what the atlas records happens: each fact now carries the countries where it happened or that were decisive actors, and the globe measures where the atlas has looked, not where the risk is. Figures gathers in a grid of small charts what can be charted from every collection, each chart with its own axis and its table for anyone reading without JavaScript. Sources becomes chapter 10.
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21 September news pass, across six regions and in their languages: the UK acknowledges to Parliament incidents of agents escaping a sandbox (HCWS314) and a bill to ban superintelligence is introduced; China opens consultation on its safety guide for developing agents and its mandatory standard adds an emergency shutdown; the US proposes an AI incident line to China ahead of the summit; Putin puts AI alongside the nuclear triad in the new armament programme; an internal Pentagon investigation partly blames Maven for the strike on the Minab school (anonymous sources, report not public); the FTC and DOJ answer the labs' antitrust exemption request and a class action accuses them of colluding to slow down; Brazil's TSE defines an electoral deepfake two weeks before the first round; Argentina stalls its «automated companies»; Vietnam's 72-hour rule now has a primary source; and Anthropic documents a surveillance platform over 25 million SIM cards in Mali built with Claude.
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20 September news pass: California's executive orders a study of a frontier-model kill switch; OpenAI debuts its misalignment disclosure framework; the four agent breakouts are confirmed as a single Irregular evaluator failure; Anthropic launches its bio program with relaxed guardrails and its wet lab; von der Leyen uses the «pace the frontier» language; Spain's DPA logs the first autonomous-agent breach; China's Supreme People's Court issues AI dispute rules; South Africa withdraws its AI policy over fabricated citations —the atlas's first African event—; Kenya opens consultation on a policy explicitly mandating frontier-model testing; the Riyadh GAIN summit is confirmed rescheduled to 2027; Australia publishes its national standards consultation with incident reporting; and the four Asian governance gaps are verified against primary sources: Japan's second Basic Plan (14 Jul), Taiwan's risk framework (7 Jul), Vietnam's AI law (passed 10 Dec 2025, in force 1 Mar 2026) and the ASEAN AI SAFE network (26 Oct 2025, voluntary and non-binding).
Correction
The note on the Chinese technical framework 2.0 source said the PDF has 82 pages; it has 92, counted with pdfinfo when it was downloaded again to compare it with 3.0.
Correction
On phones, the “Support the atlas” button covered a corner of the box that shows a citation's details. The box now sits on top.
Methodology
New glossary: 48 loanwords and technical terms, each with its definition and an everyday example. The first time one appears in an entry or a view's panel, hovering over it opens its explanation. They are not shown on phones; the full list is on the glossary page.
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The atlas has a logo: a radar with its sweep, in the top bar, in the browser tab and on the card that appears when a link is shared, which now carries it on the site's navy.
Event
News pass searching in eight languages. Added: version 3.0 of China's technical AI safety framework, read in the original and compared with 2.0; the redesign of the UAE's AI campus after Iranian attacks; the Chilean government's turn against risk-based regulation, the atlas's first Latin American event; and Google's cyber-defence model with more permissive safeguards and restricted access.
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Corrected global search (see separate correction): the official response from China's foreign ministry to the call to pace the frontier ('fear-mongering, confrontation and vicious competition'), read from the official transcript, and Russia's first federal AI law, in effect since September 1 with a 'traditional values' requirement.
Correction
Anthropic's threat report had been summarized by reading the press that summarized it, not the report itself. Read in full (Lightpanda), its most severe case —a non-state Russian team that used Claude Code to build an autonomous kamikaze drone swarm able to select human targets and issue detonation orders with no human in the loop, tested with real hardware— was missing: the event only said 'six cases of conventional-weapons software' and carried neither the military vector nor the autonomous-weapons risk. The event is corrected and added as a precedent to that risk's 'cascade' stage, without raising its evidence level: the case proves the software gets built and tested with real hardware, not that a swarm has operated in combat.
Event
Adds the first documented coordination attempt between OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind around a safety standards body, confirmed by OpenAI on September 15. Two other findings from the same pass were checked and dropped as unverifiable: a supposed Brazilian Senate vote on Bill 2338 (the Senate had already voted in 2024) and a supposed September 15 EU deadline for systemic-risk evaluations (no primary source confirms it).
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The atlas now accepts contributions on Ko-fi. The «Support the atlas» button opens the Ko-fi panel inside the page without loading any third-party script: the connection to Ko-fi only happens if you open it. The privacy policy says what data Ko-fi receives and what it shares with the atlas.
Event
The atlas stops looking only at the United States. It adds China's regulation and what its own labs declare, how the EU regulation is actually enforced, the laws of South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, the Gulf compute agreements, Russian and Indian policy, and the first expert estimates from outside the Anglophone world, including three that refuse to give a figure. It also corrects a figure the site had wrong: the two-to-fifteen-day incident reporting deadlines belong to the EU high-risk regime, which was postponed, and not to what came into force in August 2026.
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The September 9-15, 2026 wave is added: Amodei's call for pacing backed by Altman and Musk, the White House rejection, the Senate investigation into OpenAI, the undisclosed RubyGems attack, Anthropic's fourth incident and its threat report, Xi's open-AI offer at BRICS and warnings from former DeepMind members. Two earlier items the September 11 version had not covered also enter —the UK AISI incident of August 4 and the Sanders-Casar bill announced September 3— plus Hinton's first decade-horizon figure, from BBC Newsnight. Thirty-three new sources and twelve new events.
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New «Who makes the atlas» page: the team, what we have built and how the site is funded. The contact form now sits at the end of that page, which replaces the contact page; «Report a mistake» and the privacy policy link there.
Correction
Two live sources were marked as down: The Next Web and Our World in Data answer 404 to the verifier's HEAD request and 200 to GET, and the fallback to GET only fired on 403, 405 or 501. The fallback now includes 404 and both count again as directly HTTP-checked; the count of down sources also fell from nine to seven (the remaining seven are cited through their archived copy).
Correction
The source registry once again shows each source's note, its DOI or arXiv id and the date it was accessed, which the redesign had dropped. The 82 sources checked through Crossref, arXiv or the forum's API are no longer counted as «checked directly», and every citation says which route checked it. Kokotajlo's median reads December 2030, not 2031.
Methodology
The five views you explore by choosing —map, evidence, experts, scenarios and protection— now show the explanation beside what you pick, not below it. In experts and protection the detail used to sit at the foot of the page: checking one figure meant scrolling down and back up. The chapter index can also be hidden when it gets in the way.
Methodology
Every page now declares a content security policy: the browser only runs scripts signed by the build itself and loads nothing from third parties. The atlas already requested nothing from anyone; now the browser enforces it.
Correction
Expert figures now carry the decimals the source gave, no more and no fewer; the XPT superforecasters' 0.38% was shown as 0%. And the exact question now travels with each estimate, instead of one per row, which put one person's question over other people's figures.
Methodology
Full redesign with the «Institutional report» system —nine navigable chapters, eight views with an inspector and entries in the same language. Every view serves its full table, with sources and notes, for anyone reading without JavaScript.
Methodology
The atlas is ready for search engines and AI assistants —an open robots.txt, llms.txt with the full report as text, a sitemap with real dates and structured data on every page— and adds a contact form to correct figures or suggest sources, with its privacy policy.
Methodology
The atlas's ten interactive islands —map, dot plot, series, timeline, profiles, matrix, signals, three columns, cost × effort and documentary health— are built and verified, each with its accessible alternative in the HTML.
Methodology
First version of the data model, with the evidence scale and the integrity gate.