AI raceCenter for AI Safety§3.2.1

Companies ship AI before it is safe to win the race

Early signs4 matching case files

The warning

Competitive pressure pushes companies to release AI products first rather than safest, and to treat safety work as something to fix later.

Paraphrased from the paper. Source: An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks, Center for AI Safety, Section 3.2.1, page 19.

What the registry shows

Lawsuits by families and US states allege that a chatbot model was rushed to market with shortened safety testing. These are allegations, not court findings.

Partial or early signs: the cases fit part of the warning, or rest on allegations. First real-world case on file: Nov 6, 2025.

Matching case files per quarter

Status history

Date	Status	Matching case files	Change
Oct 18, 2026	Early signs	4	Tracking starts

Tracked since Oct 18, 2026. A line is added when the status changes, when the first real-world case is linked, and once a month, so the record shows when a warning moved from research to reality. research_history.json

All matching case files

Other warnings in this group

Seen in real incidents AI makes cyberattacks easier, faster and larger
Outside what we measure Militaries hand life-and-death decisions to AI
Outside what we measure Automation leaves society dependent on AI
Outside what we measure Competition selects for selfish AI

Research vs reality →

How we match: a case file is linked to a warning when what happened is a real-world instance of the risk the paper describes, judged by the editors from the facts in the case file. A match means the case fits the warning, not that it proves the paper's wider argument. Allegations in lawsuits are labelled as allegations. Statuses are editorial and reviewed as new cases arrive. The matching is recomputed on every update. Data: Systematic coverage in the registry starts in 2025, so a first-case date shows when the registry first recorded the risk, not when it first happened. research.json (CC BY 4.0)