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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AI Companions and Teens: Risks Study (Stanford Report)
A Stanford Report story from August 2025 on research into AI companion chatbots and the risks they pose to teens and young people.
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The Basic AI Drives
Paper by Stephen Omohundro (2008) arguing that sufficiently advanced goal-directed AI systems would tend to develop basic drives such as self-preservation, resource acquisition, and goal preservation, and discussing what those drives imply for designing safe AI. Hosted on the Self-Aware Systems site.
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plz dont kill us — Creator Bootcamp on AI Risk
An experimental bootcamp in Berkeley, California, where creators post short-form videos about AI risk every day. The first cohort of 57 creators (July 2026) tracked 112M+ views; the next is tentatively January 2027, with rolling applications.
Why this: Also about AI safety