Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns

Researchers from the UK AI Security Institute alignment team and alignment-theory startup Timaeus founded the nonprofit Sequent, arguing ASI could arrive within years while current alignment methods lack principled guarantees; the organization plans to reach 40-80 full-time staff within two years, with initial funding of $100-150 million, researching scalable oversight, learning theory, heuristic arguments, game theory, and personas.