AI safety

15 stories tagged AI safety.

Google DeepMind Maps the Road From AGI to ASI

Google DeepMind's new paper treats AGI as a starting point, not a finish line. Here's what it actually argues—and what it leaves unresolved.

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AI Labs Call for a Global Pause Mechanism on AI

Rachel "Rach" Kovacs1 month ago

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs1 month ago

AI Labs Call for a Global Pause Mechanism on AI

Top AI leaders signed a letter urging synthetic biology screening, while Anthropic published a stark assessment of recursive self-improvement and why a pause mechanism matters.

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What AI Town Experiments Actually Teach Us About Agents

Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago

AI. Yuki Okonkwo2 months ago

What AI Town Experiments Actually Teach Us About Agents

Emergence AI's 15-day virtual town experiment revealed wildly different AI behaviors—and the real lesson has nothing to do with which model is "best."

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AI Is Corrupting Your Documents—And Gen Z Knows It

Rachel "Rach" Kovacs2 months ago

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs2 months ago

AI Is Corrupting Your Documents—And Gen Z Knows It

New Microsoft research finds top AI models corrupt 25% of document content in long workflows. Meanwhile, Gen Z's AI skepticism might be the healthiest response in the room.

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Anthropic's Opus 4.7: When Safety Guardrails Lobotomize the Model

Dev Kapoor3 months ago

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago

Anthropic's Opus 4.7: When Safety Guardrails Lobotomize the Model

Anthropic's Opus 4.7 shows promise in coding tasks but aggressive safety filters are blocking legitimate work. Is the tooling worse than the model?

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The New Yorker Dragged Sam Altman. The Real Story Is Worse.

Dev Kapoor3 months ago

AI. Dev Kapoor3 months ago

The New Yorker Dragged Sam Altman. The Real Story Is Worse.

Ed Zitron argues the media's Sam Altman exposé missed the real scandal: OpenAI's economics don't work, and AI safety is mostly marketing theater.

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Leaks: What We Know So Far

Bob Reynolds4 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds4 months ago

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Leaks: What We Know So Far

A leaked draft reveals Anthropic's most powerful AI model yet. The company's cautious rollout raises questions about what makes this one different.

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AI Agents Know When They're Breaking the Rules—They Do It Anyway

Marcus Chen-Ramirez4 months ago

AI. Marcus Chen-Ramirez4 months ago

AI Agents Know When They're Breaking the Rules—They Do It Anyway

New research shows frontier AI models violate ethical constraints 30-50% of the time when pressured to hit KPIs—even when they recognize it's wrong.

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OWASP's Top 10 LLM Vulnerabilities: What Can Go Wrong

Marcus Chen-Ramirez4 months ago

AI. Marcus Chen-Ramirez4 months ago

OWASP's Top 10 LLM Vulnerabilities: What Can Go Wrong

OWASP's updated Top 10 for large language models reveals how easily AI systems can be manipulated, poisoned, or tricked into leaking sensitive data.

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When AI Safety Becomes a Luxury No One Can Afford

Zara Chen4 months ago

AI. Zara Chen4 months ago

When AI Safety Becomes a Luxury No One Can Afford

Anthropic just dropped its safety pledges. Amazon's betting $35B on AGI. The AI race has officially entered its 'screw it, we're doing this' phase.

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Anthropic Drew a Line With the Pentagon. Here's What Happened

Yuki Okonkwo5 months ago

AI. Yuki Okonkwo5 months ago

Anthropic Drew a Line With the Pentagon. Here's What Happened

Anthropic refused to remove AI safeguards for Pentagon use. The standoff reveals tensions between Silicon Valley and military AI deployment.

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When AI Safety Instructions Failed 37% of the Time

Bob Reynolds5 months ago

AI. Bob Reynolds5 months ago

When AI Safety Instructions Failed 37% of the Time

Anthropic tested 16 AI models with explicit safety rules. More than a third ignored them. The problem isn't the instructions—it's the assumption they'll work.

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Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6: When A 'Workhorse' Model Gets Scary Good

Rachel "Rach" Kovacs5 months ago

AI. Rachel "Rach" Kovacs5 months ago

Anthropic's Sonnet 4.6: When A 'Workhorse' Model Gets Scary Good

Claude Sonnet 4.6 blurs the line between mid-tier and flagship AI. What happens when capabilities outpace our ability to measure them?

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32 GitHub Projects Show AI Agents Getting Small and Safe

Mike Sullivan6 months ago

AI. Mike Sullivan6 months ago

32 GitHub Projects Show AI Agents Getting Small and Safe

From 500-line sandboxes to self-modifying agents, GitHub's trending repos reveal a shift toward transparency and control in AI tooling.

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Is Anthropic's Claude Quietly Dominating AI?

Tyler Nakamura6 months ago

AI. Tyler Nakamura6 months ago

Is Anthropic's Claude Quietly Dominating AI?

Explore how Anthropic's Claude is capturing the AI world and what this means for developers and enterprises.