Future of Work
Which jobs are safe from AI? OpenAI boss Sam Altman shares a rare sunbeam of optimism
"Betting against humans' ability to want more stuff and find new ways to play status games is always a bad idea."
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Opinion
Cascading risk: Protecting against supply chain attacks in a hostile threat landscape
"The assumption that cyberattacks affect single organisations no longer holds. Today, one point of failure can escalate into a cross-sector crisis."
Developer
"It really hurts!": Developers claim ChatGPT has been misgendering them
"Lately, I’ve even felt depressed - like the AI keeps mislabeling me and erasing who I am."
Meta
Meta invents LLM system that lets dead people continue posting from beyond the grave
The dead internet gets a whole new meaning with tech that gives users the ability to posthumously simulate themselves using AI.
UK
UK building autonomous AI spy network to tackle small boats crisis
New "Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" system will monitor the British Channel to identify illegal migrant vessels.
Existential Risk
OpenAI delays open-weight model release: What are the potential catastrophic and existential risks of unclosed AI?
Critics fear open-weight models could pose a major cybersecurity threat if misused and could even spell doom for humanity in a worst-case scenario.
Security
"An AI obedience problem": World's first LLM Scope Violation attack tricks Microsoft Copilot into handing over data
Zero-click bug requires "no specific user interaction and results in concrete cybersecurity damage", researchers allege.
AI
Can Elon Musk's Grok help to build Molotov cocktails? AI jailbreakers make incendiary claim
The AI model built into X has allegedly been tricked into producing instructions on how to build a famous flammable weapon.
p(doom)
Is AI scheming against humanity? Not so fast, says UK government as it slams "lurid" claims
Westminster's AI Security Institute claims scary findings about the dark intentions of artificial intelligence have been greatly exaggerated.
UK
Bureaucracy and the bomb: Britain's nuclear weapons manufacturer has an ESG programme
From planting orchards at nuclear bases to supporting pollinators, find out about the Atomic Weapons Establishment's slightly incongruous ESG drive.
Security
Marco Rubio was AI cloned: How can you avoid the same fate and stay safe from voice spoofing?
Imposter used AI to imitate the voice of the United States Secretary of State, highlighting a growing risk all organisations need to be aware of.
Existential Risk
OpenAI reveals bid to mitigate "catastrophic" chemical, biological and nuclear risk
AI firm expands Safety Systems team with engineers responsible for "identifying, tracking, and preparing for risks related to frontier AI models."