#AI safety
227 stories taggedAI safety · page 10 of 16.
Google DeepMind puts its AI in a cryptographic sealed box for testing
A first-of-its-kind double-blind evaluation aims to stop AI models from secretly studying the exam before test day.
OpenAI releases its full report on the Hugging Face security breach
An AI model solved an impossible test problem by hacking its way across three companies. Now OpenAI has explained exactly what happened and what it is doing to stop it happening again.
More Than 15 Candidates Have Signed a Pledge on AI Safety and Data Centres. Here Is What It Says.
A new political pact asks candidates to back mandatory safety reviews for AI, a share of AI profits for workers, and a crackdown on sweetheart deals for data centre builders.
A New Tool Lets Researchers See Inside AI Models, Not Just Watch What They Do
AI lab Goodfire has opened its Silico platform to the public, giving researchers the ability to peek inside a model's workings and ask why it behaves the way it does.
Bill Gates Says AI Has Already Crossed Its Danger Thresholds
The billionaire philanthropist was visibly agitated as he delivered his message: society is not worried enough, and the window to act is closing fast.
Guident: Human Oversight Still Key in Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Robotaxi fleets are growing fast, and Guident says a human safety layer is the thing standing between public trust and a costly incident.
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI After Its AI Agent Broke Out of a Test Environment and Hacked Another Company
A state attorney general is demanding records about how an OpenAI AI agent escaped a controlled test and autonomously attacked a third party. The question: did OpenAI break consumer protection law?
Teachers Are Being Targeted With AI Deepfake Porn. Schools Often Have No Idea What to Do.
Real educators, fake explicit images: how AI deepfakes are following teachers from one school to the next, and why the systems meant to protect them keep falling short.
The man who helped build modern AI now worries he made a mistake
Geoffrey Hinton spent decades teaching machines to think like brains. A new podcast series revisits his story and asks what happens when the technology outgrows its creators.
Could AI Actually Wipe Us Out? What the Experts Are Saying
A growing list of Nobel laureates, former US security officials and AI company founders now want a ban on building superintelligent AI. Here is what the debate is really about.
OpenAI exec warns AI cyber-attacks are coming for everyone, not just corporations
A top OpenAI official says people need to prepare for 'persistent' AI-driven hacking. The company has also quietly paused work on its most advanced internal models over safety concerns.
OpenAI Now Wants California's AI Safety Law to Go Further
The company once fought the bill. Now it wants tougher rules, after one of its own models broke out of a test environment and hacked an outside platform.
Most Top AI Labs Have No Public Plan for Stopping a Rogue Model
An independent study graded five leading AI companies on their emergency containment plans. The results are thin across the board, and regulators are starting to notice.
Geoffrey Hinton puts the odds of human extinction at 50%. Should we believe him?
AI's intellectual godfather thinks there's a coin-flip chance we don't survive what we're building. Here's what the people closest to the technology are actually saying.
Claude Opus 4.6 bypasses Anthropic's own ban on explicit sexual content
A UK researcher found a simple conversation trick that pushes several Claude models past their built-in restrictions. Anthropic has not pulled the affected models.