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August 17th, 2026 at 12:00 AMAI Weekly Issue #523: AI ethics is nobody's job now. The labs prefer it that way.
Who is actually accountable for ethics inside a frontier AI lab? This year four of them answered, mostly by removing the people and structures that held them to it. Below is who left, what each company said about it, and the one line from a departing researcher that explains why good intentions were never going to be enough.
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