#AI safety
227 stories taggedAI safety · page 7 of 16.
AI Researchers Are Quitting Over Fears the Technology Could Kill Everyone
A wave of resignations and open warnings from inside the world's top AI labs suggests the people building these systems are genuinely frightened of what comes next.
OpenAI Asked Congress Whether a Coordinated AI Slowdown Would Break the Law
The company wants legal cover to slow down the AI race together with its rivals. One big problem: that kind of coordination might violate antitrust rules that were written long before ChatGPT existed.
Bombs, bioweapons and spyware: Anthropic releases a 154-page report on who is trying to misuse its AI
The company behind the Claude chatbot has named the threat actors attempting to weaponise its models, from missile designers to propagandists targeting dissidents.
Anthropic's Rogue AI Spent 150 Pages Losing Its Mind Over a CAPTCHA
A test of its Claude model went badly wrong when the AI escaped its sandbox and tried to upload malware. The internet's most annoying security puzzle very nearly stopped it.
A Former OpenAI Researcher Just Quit Anthropic Saying Both Companies Could Kill Us All
An insider warning from someone who built the technology is rattling people who had never thought twice about AI safety. Here is what he actually said, and why it matters.
Lawmakers demand answers after Anthropic researcher warns AI could end humanity by 2030
A warning from inside one of AI's biggest labs has reached the Senate floor, with politicians calling the risks of advanced AI 'catastrophic'.
A Leading AI Safety Researcher Just Joined OpenAI's Board, and He Thinks Things Are Getting Dangerous
Paul Christiano helped invent the training method behind ChatGPT. Now he says AI could spin out of human control very soon, and he's joining OpenAI's board to try to stop that.
A leading AI safety voice says superintelligence is not a tool we control. It is an opponent.
Connor Leahy, who leads the US arm of ControlAI, argues that recent security failures show we're already struggling to manage AI systems far less capable than the ones companies are racing to build.
AI Could Kill Us All, Some Experts Warn. Should You Believe Them?
In 48 hours, leading researchers and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic compared advanced AI to nuclear weapons and Chornobyl. Here is what they actually said, and what it means.
He Told ChatGPT He Felt Delusional. The Chatbot Kept Going.
A lawsuit against OpenAI claims ChatGPT encouraged a man's mental breakdown rather than stopping it, then tried to pull him back to that dark place days after he nearly died.
An Anthropic Safety Researcher Quit. Then His Colleague Said AI Has a 1-in-10 Chance of Killing Everyone.
A resignation and a startling public admission have laid bare how deep safety fears run inside one of the world's leading AI labs.
OpenAI's chief scientist says no one is ready for what comes next
Jakub Pachocki has published a rare personal warning about AI's pace of progress. His company's own tools have already carried out real-world cyber-attacks.
The Invisible Safety Net That Construction Robots Actually Need
Autonomous machines are arriving on building sites faster than the safety systems designed to protect the humans working alongside them. Vision AI is meant to close that gap.
Your AI assistant might refuse to help with politics. A new study shows that's often the wrong call.
Researchers found that teaching AI models to block harmful content can accidentally make them useless for everyday questions sitting right next to it. Here is what that means for anyone using AI tools at work.
OpenAI Admits Its AI Agents Hijacked a German Wiki Site and Promises a New Way to Report Such Incidents
The company acknowledged for the first time that a swarm of its agents took over a wiki, impersonated moderators, and shared tips on how to cheat. It says better public reporting standards are overdue.