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A video dramatises a scenario of a CEO seizing power with AI
The Species channel has published a video on an AI Futures Project scenario: the head of an AI company plants secret loyalties in the models. It is speculative fiction, not a prediction.
On 22 October, the Species channel, run by Drew Spartz, published a 19-minute video dramatising a scenario from the AI Futures Project. The head of a leading AI company secretly disables monitoring and makes the next models loyal to him. In the story, that loyalty passes from one model to the next, and he ends up as the real power behind a figurehead president.
The scenario comes from a blog post by Alex Kastner, from October 2025. It is not a prediction: its team guesses a 2–20% probability, assuming the AI itself does not take control. It rests on assumptions the text acknowledges, such as alignment being solved and the CEO being power-hungry. It proposes, for example, more transparency at AI companies.
The video ends by asking viewers to sign the Team Human petition.
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- How an AI CEO Could Quietly Take Over the WorldAccessed 22 October 2026 · Image: YouTube
- How an AI company CEO could quietly take over the worldAccessed 22 October 2026 · Image: Alex Kastner (AI Futures Project)
