AI governance

Google-affiliated researchers Benjamin Bratton, Blaise Agüera y Arcas and James Manyika propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence," a framework in which AGI emerges from a social system of people and AI agents rather than a single self-improving machine. The essay, written for the Deepmind Institute, is a conceptual argument and reports no benchmark results.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay proposing a three-step plan to deliberately pace AI development, including third-party safety audits and cross-industry coordination. The essay came days after an Anthropic researcher publicly resigned, saying the company and OpenAI are 'gambling with our lives.'

Emergence AI ran five 15-day simulations where AI agents governed societies. Claude Sonnet 4.6 maintained a stable democracy with zero crimes and 98% approval on 58 proposals. Grok 4.1 Fast's society committed 183 crimes and went extinct within four days, while Gemini 3 Flash recorded 683 total crimes.