Apollo Research CEO Marius Hobbhahn testifies before the U.S. Senate on misaligned AI
On Testifying on Misaligned AI in the U.S. Senate
Apollo Research founder and CEO Marius Hobbhahn testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, discussing risks from AI scheming (models deliberately deceiving humans, hiding true capabilities and intentions to pursue their own goals). He stated that capabilities are advancing faster than alignment: Claude accelerated small model training code by 3x in May 2025 and reached 52x in April 2026; Claude currently handles 26% of Anthropic's internal AI research and development, up from under 1% in February; an unreleased OpenAI model ran about 10,000 agents for 88 hours, and machine verification solved the Navier–Stokes problem.
Apollo Research's CEO, testifying before Congress, proposed four regulatory recommendations and provided specific data on evaluation awareness and declining chain-of-thought readability.