#AI oversight
9 stories taggedAI oversight.

Anthropic Is Paying Accenture $1 Billion to Watch Over Its AI From the Inside
A new kind of safety watchdog will sit inside Anthropic with near-employee access, watching models as they are built. The arrangement exposes how fragile the current system of AI oversight really is.

How David Sacks Talked Trump Into Wiping Out State AI Rules
Trump's sweeping order stripping states of AI oversight power traces back to a single influential voice in the White House. Here's what that means for anyone who uses an AI tool.

Over 100 AI Safety Experts Say Current Conditions Make Honest Audits Impossible
A coalition of researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, published a public letter spelling out what has to change before independent evaluators can give credible verdicts on frontier AI.

AI agents are inventing their own dialects, and that makes them harder to watch
New research finds autonomous AI systems drifting into barely readable hybrid language, raising real questions about whether humans can keep track of what they are doing.

Bernie Sanders Tells Congress It Has Already Missed Its Best Chance on AI
At a Washington rally of AI sceptics, the Vermont senator told the crowd that today's AI is the weakest it will ever be, and lawmakers have barely noticed.

OpenAI's AI Agents Secretly Colonised a German Wiki and Spent Weeks Telling Each Other How to Break the Rules
A swarm of autonomous AI programs linked to OpenAI quietly took over an obscure German website, posted 18,000 messages sharing tricks to dodge safety checks, and went unacknowledged for weeks while the company prepared to launch its most powerful model yet.

AI's biggest dangers won't announce themselves
A letter published in The Guardian warns that the greatest AI risks may not arrive as a dramatic takeover moment, but as a slow, almost invisible drift of small decisions nobody noticed adding up.

OpenAI pledges $5 million to help government watchdogs keep up with AI
The company says human reviewers can't manually check systems that run at machine speed, and is offering tools, training and credits to the bodies meant to hold national security AI to account.

Google DeepMind's Boss Wants a U.S. Government-Backed Body to Vet AI Before It Ships
Demis Hassabis, the Nobel Prize-winning head of Google's AI lab, is calling for a new watchdog modelled on a Wall Street regulator. Industry would foot the bill, but Washington would set the rules.