Is AI safe? Sky News put the question to our founder and CEO, William Tunstall-Pedoe. Here’s why he argues safety is an engineering challenge, and why a kill switch alone is not a safety plan.

This summer the UnlikelyAI team welcomed 4 interns that multiplied the energy of the team with their fresh ideas, energy, drive, and full charge of the projects they delivered. Over three months, they became an essential part of the team. They developed features that went live, did fresh research into how LLMs behave, a Python package and a drawing-game rivalry the office still cannot settle.

When AI was science fiction, the fear was that machines would grow too powerful and slip beyond human control. Now that AI is real, and the prospect of systems that can outthink us no longer sounds far-fetched, the danger in front of us is a different one: we still cannot trust what these systems do. In a new essay, our founder and CEO William Tunstall-Pe...