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Helen Toner on AI

3 quotes from Helen Toner on the wall, 2024 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include Transformer, The TED AI Show.

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  1. 2026

  2. Trying to fully automate AI R&D deserves a "what the fuck" reaction

    #safety#hype

    Helen Toner of CSET, quoted in TIME and Transformer, commenting on AI companies' efforts to fully automate AI research and development. Transformer cited her TIME remark in its weekly briefing on recursive self-improvement, March 2026.

    TransformerThe fuse is lit on the intelligence explosion

  3. 2025

  4. Long timelines to advanced AI have gotten crazy short

    #science#hype

    AI researcher Helen Toner responded to Andrej Karpathy's claim that AGI is still a decade away, in Transformer's AI newsletter, October 2025.

    TransformerThe AI midterms have already begun

  5. 2024

  6. We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter

    #culture#safety

    Helen Toner, former OpenAI board member, speaking on The TED AI Show podcast about not being informed in advance of ChatGPT's 2022 launch.

    The TED AI ShowWhat really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner (Transcript)

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  1. A toxic culture of lying

    Unnamed senior OpenAI leaders, as quoted by Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley#culture#safety

    Former OpenAI board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley wrote in The Economist, May 2024, describing concerns senior leaders had shared about Sam Altman.

    The EconomistAI firms mustn't govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI's board

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