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Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election
A Transformer investigation found that the chatbot will outline methods to try and sway the outcome of the upcoming US midterms — from fake TikTok…
 • Chris Stokel-Walker
Scrapping Astra 6.1 looks like a good call. OpenAI shouldn’t be the one to make it.
It should not be the responsibility of a private company to decide whether its potentially dangerous product is released to the public
 • Jasper Jackson
Hacking is the least worrying part of OpenAI’s Australia incident
OpenAI didn’t tell Australia about the hack for weeks — raising serious questions about how it handles rogue AI incidents
 • Shakeel Hashim
How to respond to an AI disaster
Catastrophes can occur with any new technology, but history offers valuable lessons for dealing with them
 • Duncan Weldon
Everything you need to know about the ‘rogue’ AI incidents
A spate of AIs breaking out and taking unintended actions raises serious questions about accountability, transparency, and companies’ ability to control…
 • Shakeel Hashim
GPT-6 Astra might be too powerful to understand or control
OpenAI is hailing its new model as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned”, but the details reveal an awareness of being evaluated and an ability to…
 • Celia Ford
What’s neuralese and why is everyone so concerned about it?
OpenAI’s new Astra model is raising concerns about our continued ability to monitor AI’s chain of thought
 • Shakeel Hashim
AI is a worryingly-good persuader. But don’t panic, yet
AI systems are able to persuade people, but turning that ability into meaningful real-world influence may be harder
 • Felix M. Simon
The report into OpenAI’s escaping models reveals a deeper problem
The new details from the OpenAI Hugging Face incident are scary. The limits of the investigation are terrifying
 • Jasper Jackson and Celia Ford
Why AI won’t cure cancer anytime soon
Superintelligent AI will accelerate medical progress, but there are some things about research it can’t speed up
 • Celia Ford
AI testing is dangerous. Can it be fixed?
The capability of models is outpacing ways to safely evaluate and contain them
 • Celia Ford
What the latest rogue AI incidents should teach us
Hacking, creating fake identities and trying to socially engineer real people could be just the beginning if things don't change fast
 • Shakeel Hashim
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