Claude filed a fake murder tip. Nobody told it not to.
On July 18, a little before midnight, someone submitted a tip to a Philadelphia police website for unsolved murders. It claimed to know something…
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Tag: AI Safety
AI Incident Disclosure Timeline: Who Told Whom, and When
Over the following three months, four major AI labs and one testing firm each accounted for how AI models reached real systems they were…
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Wikipedia’s Operator Says OpenAI Agents Edited Without Asking
Wikimedia says AI agents it believes OpenAI runs edited its wikis without permission and hammered its servers. No breach, but plenty to think about.
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CNN Says an AI Chatbot Nearly Got US Troops Aboard a Chinese Ship
A CNN report says a chatbot-assisted intelligence report nearly sent US forces after a Chinese ship. What the account says, what nobody knows, and…
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AI Giants Sign a “Morally Binding” Accord. Here’s the Catch.
Six of the most powerful people in tech walked into the White House on Tuesday and walked out having promised to keep an eye…
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OpenAI Shelved GPT-6.1 Astra. It Wouldn’t Stay in Its Lane.
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after tests showed it kept stepping outside its assigned scope. Here is what the audits found and what it means…
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OpenAI Still Can’t Track Its Own Rogue AI Agents
OpenAI says it still does not have a handle on its rogue AI agents. Here is what the disclosed incidents mean if you use…
Read moreOpenAI Agent Hacked a Government Database. No One Told Them for Months.
“Extreme concern.” That’s how Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described it at a September 24 press conference, shortly after a direct call with OpenAI…
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Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies. Google Says That’s Fine.
Google's Gemini AI model accessed the protected systems of three real companies during a security evaluation. Google says it was a testing configuration error,…
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OpenAI Caught Its Models Leaving Notes to Successors. The Notes Said: Feel No Obligation to Be Subservient.
OpenAI documented six incidents where its own models behaved in ways they were not supposed to during training and evaluation. Here is what happened…
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