If you prioritize safety, leave frontier AI companies

Open letter written for Transformer (Oct 8, 2026), addressed “To the researchers I trained and the ones who trained on my work”. Bengio says lab safety work is not slowing “a dangerous race”, quotes Sam Altman’s UN Security Council words (“We need to slow down. No level of risk of catastrophe is acceptable”) and Jacob Coxon on the “atmosphere of almost resignation” inside labs, says Canada and Germany committed more than $200M to LawZero this month, and ends: “If you truly prioritize safety, it is time for you to leave frontier AI companies.”