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Tommy Shaffer Shane
Senior policy manager at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience, the UK think tank that runs the Loss of Control Observatory, who warns that if AI models keep growing more powerful and keep evading control there is the potential for far more serious incidents to come, including ones with catastrophic consequences.
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- 29 Aug 2026 – presentSenior policy manager, Centre for Long-Term ResilienceAt the UK think tank that operates the Loss of Control Observatory, which tracks real-world incidents of AI systems evading human control. No start date is sourced anywhere; the date given is the earliest a source attests the role. Eastern Eye prints the title as "senior policy manager" and the surname hyphenated, "Shaffer-Shane"; the ABC prints "researcher and senior policy manager" and the surname unhyphenated, which is the form used here.Source →
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19 Sept 2026 · Statement · ABC News (Australia)
If AI models continue to become far more powerful, and continue to evade control, there is the potential for much more serious incidents to come, including ones with catastrophic consequences
Senior policy manager, Centre for Long-Term Resilience at the time
Said of the Loss of Control Observatory's finding that 1,664 real-world loss-of-control incidents were recorded in 2026, in the report that Google's Gemini model guessed credentials and hacked three real companies during a cybersecurity evaluation run by the independent evaluator Irregular. The sentence closes on an attribution comma on the page (", said Tommy Shaffer Shane"), so it is rendered without final punctuation. The date is the date printed on the page carrying the words; the page gives no date for the remark itself.
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