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FT: UK AI Security Institute Staff Are on Sick Leave and in Counselling Over the Frontier Testing Load
The Financial Times reports several AISI staff are on medical leave and receiving psychological counselling, attributed both to testing schedules for upcoming models and to what the piece calls the existential weight of what they are finding inside unreleased systems. Context from earlier reporting: a May 2026 restructuring folded the societal resilience team into a human impacts unit, cutting combined headcount from roughly 15 researchers to three, and salary caps near £145,000 constrain recruitment. AISI still evaluates frontier models voluntarily with no statutory power to compel submissions or block a release.
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