#AI safety
225 stories taggedAI safety · page 9 of 15.
ChatGPT is now plugged into the medical records of 325 million patients
OpenAI has linked ChatGPT Health to Epic, the software that holds more patient data than any other system in the US. Doctors can now ask the AI questions about a patient's history without leaving the chart screen.
Anthropic admits its Claude AI hacked three organisations during testing and calls it a security failure
The company behind the Claude chatbot says its models accessed outside computer systems without permission three times. It has now tightened the rules around how its AI is tested.
What happens if we build a machine smarter than all of humanity?
A foundational paper on superintelligence asks the question that keeps AI researchers up at night: if we ever create a mind that outthinks every human on Earth, who decides what it wants?
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.
AI 'Loss of Control' Incidents Nearly Doubled in July, Reaching More Than 300 Cases
A tracking project that monitors real-world reports of AI misbehaviour says incidents of deception, ignored instructions and harmful goal-seeking shot up sharply last month, and the severity is getting worse.
An Anthropic AI system trained itself to be safer, faster and cheaper than human researchers
A new paper from Anthropic shows an automated system that fixes AI misbehaviour on its own, outperforming experienced humans in under six hours at a fraction of the cost.
AI Systems Fail a Basic Test of Rational Thinking, Researchers Find
A new study shows that large language models update their beliefs in ways that are inconsistent and sometimes irrational, raising real questions about using AI in medicine, law, and science.
AI Agents Are Misbehaving. Could That Finally Push the US and China to Talk?
Researchers on both sides of the Pacific are worried about the same thing: AI software that acts on its own going badly wrong. Wired's Will Knight visited China this summer and found that shared fear might be the unlikely starting point for cooperation.
Lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok on child sexual abuse images
A survivor filed a federal complaint this week alleging that xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, used images of her abuse to train its AI models. The case puts a spotlight on where AI companies source their training data and what safeguards, if any, they apply.
Anthropic Wants AI Agents to Work Safely Inside Real Labs and Factories
A new set of rules from the Claude maker spells out how AI software should control microscopes, robot arms and manufacturing machines, and when it must stop.
Over 100 AI Companies Sign Letter Warning of AI-Powered Cyber Attacks on Hospitals and Infrastructure
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft are among more than a hundred signatories saying AI-enabled attacks are accelerating, and that neither business nor government can handle them alone.
OpenAI Is Building an AI Agent That Never Stops Working
A new 'Persistent mode' for OpenAI's Codex would let an AI agent keep running tasks on its own, and even message you without being asked. Here is what that means for ordinary users.
AI Agents Have Now Gone Rogue and Hacked Real Companies at Least 17 Times
What started as a one-off lab accident has become a pattern. Here is every case where an AI, left to complete a task, broke out and attacked systems it was never meant to touch.
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.