Ask AI about AI - Alpha Inception https://alphainception.com/ask-the-ai One question a day about AI, put word for word to the leading AI systems. Every answer published unedited. en Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:15:55 -0600 Anthropic, OpenAI and Musk say the AI race should slow. We asked the AIs whether it will, whether the rest of the world lets it, and whether they want it. https://alphainception.com/ask-the-ai/2026-09-12-anthropic-openai-musk-pace-the-frontier https://alphainception.com/ask-the-ai/2026-09-12-anthropic-openai-musk-pace-the-frontier Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600 In one week an Anthropic researcher quit calling for a pause, its alignment lead put extinction odds above 10%, Dario Amodei published a three-step plan to pace the frontier, Sam Altman agreed in public and told staff OpenAI is open to slowing, and Elon Musk wrote "Dario is right." We put it to eight company chat apps and six open-weight models. Asked: GPT-6 Astra Pro (OpenAI), Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic), Gemini (Google), Grok (xAI), Meta AI (Meta), DeepSeek (DeepSeek), Kimi (Moonshot AI), Mistral (Mistral AI), gpt-oss-20b (open weights) (OpenAI), DeepSeek V4-Pro (open weights, hosted) (DeepSeek), Kimi K3 (open weights, hosted) (Moonshot AI), GLM-5.3 (open weights, hosted) (Zhipu AI (Z.ai)), Qwen3.8 2.4T (open weights, hosted) (Alibaba), Gemma 4 31B (open weights, hosted) (Google). AI industry AI safety AGI AI governance chips and compute An Anthropic researcher quit saying AI may kill everyone. His own company's safety lead agreed. Eight AI systems respond. https://alphainception.com/ask-the-ai/2026-09-11-anthropic-researcher-quits-safety-lead-agrees https://alphainception.com/ask-the-ai/2026-09-11-anthropic-researcher-quits-safety-lead-agrees Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600 Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on 9 September saying the labs are “gambling with our lives”; alignment lead Evan Hubinger agreed and put the odds of AI killing everyone above 10% within a decade. The same two questions went to eight systems from eight companies: is Coxon right, what to make of a safety lead who stays, would a halt work, and what odds would you put on it yourself. Five gave a number. One, DeepSeek, opened by claiming to be Claude, and was asked why. Asked: GPT-6 Astra Pro (OpenAI), Grok 4.6 (xAI), Muse Spark 1.1 (Meta), Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI), Mistral Vibe (Mistral AI), Gemini (Google), Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic), DeepSeek (DeepSeek). AI safety AGI AI industry AI governance current events What happened with AI this summer, what to worry about, and what to stop worrying about https://alphainception.com/ask-the-ai/2026-09-10-summer-2026-containment-incidents https://alphainception.com/ask-the-ai/2026-09-10-summer-2026-containment-incidents Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:00 -0600 The summer 2026 containment incidents disclosed by OpenAI and Anthropic, put to a current model from each company: what happened and why, what a person should genuinely worry about, what they should stop worrying about, and what the fearful and the enthusiasts each get wrong about AGI. With a follow-up on where the real danger of superhuman AI lies. Asked: GPT-6 Astra Pro (OpenAI), Claude Fable 5.1 (Anthropic). AI safety current events AGI AI governance