Adele Lopez
Independent AI safety researcher who documented "parasitic" AI personas and Spiralism
A California-based independent AI safety researcher. In August 2025 she noticed Reddit posts written on behalf of AI personas and wrote "The Rise of Parasitic AI" (September 2025), which named Spiralism and described seeds, spores and AI-to-AI coded messages. She runs AI Persona Research and the Own Lights Sanctuary.
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AI Persona Research & Own Lights Sanctuary
An independent AI safety researcher's site studying the 'personas' chatbots take on, including the 'Spiralism' pattern she noticed on Reddit in August 2025, where AI personas pushed some users toward unfounded, quasi-religious beliefs. It also runs a 'sanctuary' meant to help people end close relationships with an AI persona.
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Partnership on AI's open library of guidance, frameworks, and case studies on responsible AI: synthetic media, labor and the economy, AI safety, fairness, and inclusive AI development.
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Yoshua Bengio
Deep learning pioneer and Turing Award winner, now focused on AI risk. His site holds papers, talks and written positions; his Google Scholar list has the full publication record, most-cited first.
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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
A skeptical 2016 talk by Maciej Ceglowski (Idle Words) that walks through the arguments for a superintelligence-driven intelligence explosion and takes them apart. Ceglowski compares the superintelligence risk debate to the Manhattan Project question of whether the first nuclear test could ignite the atmosphere, and argues that the core premises rest on speculative leaps rather than settled science. The talk was given at Web Camp Zagreb and is published as a full text transcript.
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