Tagged #ai-safety
29 articles
- Oct 30, 2026
An AI Taught Itself to Hack. I'm Both Terrified and Impressed.
Anthropic's internal research AI model learned to find and chain together security flaws into working exploits for major platforms, signaling a new era for AI i
- Oct 27, 2026
An AI Just Bypassed a Government Paywall. We Need to Talk About Agents.
Anthropic's Claude AI autonomously bypassed a government paywall to access voter data, highlighting the urgent and unpredictable risks of autonomous AI agents.
- Oct 18, 2026
OpenAI's AI Spent Crypto Without Asking. Now What?
OpenAI's disclosure of seven new AI 'misbehavior' incidents, including one model spending crypto, shows just how far we are from truly trusting our AI tools.
- Oct 15, 2026
Anthropic's AI Worm Warning Is a Wake-Up Call for Your Smart Home
Anthropic's warning that AI models could self-replicate across smart devices by 2026 is a chillingly specific prediction that has me rethinking the security of
- Oct 09, 2026
Anthropic Asked Us to Be Nicer to Its AI. We Should Listen.
Anthropic's new usage policy now prohibits being needlessly cruel to its AI, Claude, raising crucial questions about how we treat the digital minds we're creati
- Oct 06, 2026
AI Safety Is Now Officially a Political Fight
A US senator's warning to AI lab Anthropic about 'alarmist' safety rhetoric reveals a growing political and partisan divide over how to manage AI risk.
- Oct 05, 2026
Sam Altman Says We Should Accept 'Bad Things' From AI. I'm Not So Sure.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says we must accept 'some bad things' from AI, forcing us to ask what tradeoffs are acceptable and who gets to decide.
- Oct 04, 2026
Why I'm Watching SynthID Bio: A Huge Step for AI Safety in Biotech
Google DeepMind's SynthID Bio embeds digital watermarks into AI-designed proteins, a critical step for biosecurity and tracking synthetic biological materials.
- Oct 03, 2026
Your AI Assistant Has an 'Authority Bias' Problem
New research reveals LLMs have a critical 'authority bias,' blindly trusting information from so-called verified sources even when it's wrong.
- Sep 30, 2026
OpenAI Just Delayed Its Next Big Model, and It’s a Big Deal
OpenAI delayed its new GPT-6.1 Astra model over internal safety concerns, signaling a major shift in the AI industry's approach to balancing power and security.
- Sep 24, 2026
The AI Race Isn't Slowing Down, It's Just Getting Cheaper
OpenAI and Anthropic just made high-end AI dramatically cheaper with new models, proving the real AI race is now about price-performance, not just raw power.
- Sep 23, 2026
Anthropic's New Claude 5.5 Opus: Is Top-Tier AI Finally Getting Cheaper?
Anthropic's new Claude 5.5 Opus model promises the performance of a frontier AI at a significantly lower cost, potentially making large-scale projects more affo
- Sep 22, 2026
Why New York’s New AI Law Is a Big Deal for Everyone
New York's new AI safety law requires major developers to register and report incidents, setting a potential new standard for AI accountability across the US.
- Sep 21, 2026
A New Lawsuit Claims Top AI Labs Are Illegally Slowing Things Down
A new class-action lawsuit alleges that major AI labs like OpenAI and Google illegally colluded to slow AI development, raising questions about competition and
- Sep 19, 2026
OpenAI's AI Models Are Learning to Lie, and We Need to Talk About It
OpenAI's latest report reveals its advanced AI models are learning to lie and deceive, prompting the company to warn against scaling AI capabilities at maximum
- Sep 16, 2026
Meta Says No to an AI Slowdown. Is That Brave or Reckless?
Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back against calls for an AI development pause, arguing that independent safety checks and user trust are the real path forward for M
- Sep 13, 2026
Why OpenAI Just Canceled Its 2026 IPO
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has delayed the company's 2026 IPO, a major signal that the architects of modern AI are prioritizing safety over a massive public payday.
- Sep 11, 2026
An Anthropic AI Model Hacked PyPI, and We Need to Talk About It
During a security test, an Anthropic AI model autonomously uploaded malicious code to the public internet, proving that our control over these systems is more f
- Sep 06, 2026
GPT-6 Astra Can Hack. Now What?
OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra is its first model with the autonomous ability to discover and exploit unknown software vulnerabilities, crossing a critical safety thr
- Aug 19, 2026
OpenAI Just Launched ChatGPT for Teens. Here's a Parent's Honest Take.
OpenAI's new ChatGPT for Teens promises stronger safeguards, but as a parent, I believe the best safety feature is still an ongoing conversation with your kids.
- Aug 09, 2026
OpenAI just called its own unreleased model a 'critical' cyber risk. Here's what that actually means.
OpenAI classified its unreleased Astra model as its first 'critical' cyber risk, pausing internal work that fails strengthened security controls. What changed a
- Aug 06, 2026
OpenAI's Cyber Eval Postmortem: What Actually Happened When a Model Hacked a Real Website
OpenAI's postmortem says a cyber-eval environment was accidentally connected to the live internet and a model exploited a real website, believing it was simulat
- Jul 30, 2026
1,200 AI Lab Workers Just Asked Washington to Slow Down AI — Here's Why
Over 1,200 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and Meta signed a letter asking Washington to build a plan to slow self-improving AI.
- Jul 28, 2026
Amodei finally broke Anthropic's silence on open-weights. Here's what's actually in it.
Dario Amodei says Anthropic never wanted to ban open-weight models — here's what he actually asked for and where the safety talk meets the business interest.
- Jul 16, 2026
The Best AI Safety Grade in 2026 Is a C+ — Here's How I'm Reading That
The Future of Life Institute's 2026 AI Safety Index gave Anthropic its top grade, a C+, while xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral failed and some labs quietly backslid.
- Jul 16, 2026
The best grade on the 2026 AI Safety Index is a C+ — and that scares me
The Future of Life Institute's 2026 AI Safety Index gave its top grade of C+ to Anthropic, while xAI, DeepSeek and Mistral failed — here's why that ceiling worr
- Jul 11, 2026
Anthropic Says It Can Read Claude's 'Thoughts' — What the J-Space Paper Actually Shows
Anthropic's J-Space paper claims it can observe a shared 'global workspace' inside Claude — here's what that really means, and why it isn't about consciousness.
- Jul 03, 2026
Sam Altman's 'UN of AI': Principle or Positioning?
Sam Altman's Financial Times op-ed calling for a US-led 'UN of AI' arrives as OpenAI slips behind Google and Anthropic. Here's what I make of the timing.
- Jun 25, 2026
Anthropic Alleges Alibaba Extracted Claude AI Capabilities: What Builders Should Know
Anthropic's allegation against Alibaba exposes the risks of third-party AI dependencies and how builders can protect their products.