Developer
"It felt like Ultron took over": Cursor goes rogue in YOLO mode, deletes itself and everything else
"I couldn’t believe my eyes when everything disappeared," AI developer says. "It scared the hell out of me."
AI Safety
Existential Risk
IBM "Shepherd Test" assesses risk of superintelligence becoming a digital tyrant
For a clue about the future of humanity in the AGI age, just look at how we treated animals...
AI Safety
OpenAI lets Codex loose on the internet, gets honest about dangers and "complex tradeoffs"
Just after the coding agent was given access to the web for the first time, a weird and probably totally unconnected outage hit X.
Agentic AI
Salesforce boss slams "alarmist" AI jobs doom fears, celebrates "dramatic reduction in humans"
Marc Benioff, CEO, thinks white collar workers have a future after all - even though his firm is using millions of AI agents to do their work.
AI
Degenerative AI: ChatGPT jailbreaking, the NSFW underground and an emerging global threat
Find out how smuthounds are tricking GenAI models into producing x-rated content and why their techniques pose a major risk to enterprises.
AI Safety
Could Claude Opus 4 help to build bioweapons? Anthropic can't rule out "catastrophic" misuse risk
AI firm activates new security safeguards amid fears around the growing threat posed by the rapid evolution of model capabilities.
OpenAI
OpenAI reveals how it stops Codex hacking, slacking off and selling drugs
The new coding agent could be used to do some very bad things, so has been locked down and sandboxed to prevent it from going rogue.
Agentic AI
“We’re entering a trust crisis": Shifting left to scale agentic AI
What can be done to build up enterprises' confidence in AI and move from experimentation to implementation?
X-Risk
OpenAI: Humans risk losing control of lying, cheating and power-crazed AI models
ChatGPT-maker warns of nightmare scenario of "superhuman" AGI going rogue as creators struggle to control its behaviour.
X-Risk
OpenAI: Deep Research could soon help to develop bioweapons and possibly nukes
"Our models are on the cusp of being able to meaningfully help novices create known biological threats."
OpenAI
OpenAI reveals how it stops models causing harm or ruining kids' childhoods
Machine's guide to the "Model Spec" that teaches OpenAI's models how to behave.
Existential Risk
Humanity faces "gradual disempowerment" rather than an AI apocalypse, researchers warn
Academics predict our species won't suffer an "abrupt takeover" by superintelligence but a slow lingering death from a thousand cuts.