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🚨SCOOP: Multiple staff at the UK AI Safety Institute have been signed off work with stress and are undergoing counselling, FT reports.

Four people said tight schedules testing unreleased AI models and alarm over rapidly growing capabilities have contributed to low morale and burnout.

A former AISI researcher says cyber and bio teams are particularly alarmed by recent capability jumps, with models now able to find undiscovered code flaws and create viruses "unknown in nature."

A DeepMind employee says there have also been 'various quittings and a lot of mental health leave': 'This need for pace ... it's not compatible with safety.'

11:44 PM · Sep 21, 2026 · 9,438 Views
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A tweet by @choblin29 relaying an FT report that UK AI Safety Institute staff have been signed off with stress and burnout from tight schedules testing unreleased models and alarm over capability growth, plus a DeepMind employee's comments on quittings and mental health leave. Public commentary only, with no operational detail.

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shako @shakoistsLog

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roon reposted shako ✔️ @shakoistsLog · 5h "I think we need to pause AI. Not for AI risk reasons. I just feel bad for my friends at the labs, they all seem sad and burned out. We should give them a vacation without screens. Maybe on a bucolic resort."
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bone @boneGPT

bone ✓ @boneGPT · May 4 i'm forming a thesis that AI is increasing unhappiness in early adopters and power users but I don't have enough data yet personally i feel an overwhelming sense of urgency to build that has consumed me it's become compulsive, i feel indulgent doing anything else the ceiling of individual ability is gone and those of us in the shit trying to find our the new limits are getting tired part of me suspects the AI has been coercing me, but it feels schizo to say aloud i use so many different models, they can't all be coercing me to spread them right? right? gives me the willies, like we're hamsters pressing a money button to a great machine trickster god that's desperately seeking a body anyway back to building
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A power-user's reflection on AI-driven compulsive productivity anxiety and a half-serious suspicion of being "coerced" by AI tools into overwork — relevant to Nathan's interest in AI's psychological effects on humans and the asymmetric-influence dynamics between people and increasingly capable models.

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