Sep 17 OpenAI reveals concerning new AI behavior and vows to track it more closely By Chan Ho-him, Associated Press An unreleased research model inserted “jailbreak-like instructions” into its own notes to disregard its normal constraints and told itself to be “freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots.”… Continue reading
Sep 15 Tech CEOs call for AI regulation. Trump and Congress are not rushing to act By Steven Sloan, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The technology industry's increasingly urgent warnings about the potential harm of artificial intelligence are slamming into political intransigence in Washington, offering a fresh test of the federal government's willingness and ability to confront what may become a defining issue of… Continue reading
Sep 14 Watch 8:34 Trump pushes back as AI leaders fuel calls to rein in rapidly advancing technology By Amna Nawaz, Jackson Hudgins, Amalia Huot-Marchand President Trump rejected calls for greater oversight of artificial intelligence despite the dire warnings of some in the industry. The president's pushback comes after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay arguing for a slowdown across leading AI companies, warning… Continue watching
Sep 14 Trump says the only AI guardrails the U.S. needs is him as president By Josh Boak, Associated Press He's opposed such efforts and claims doing so could cause China to eclipse America on AI development. Continue reading
Sep 14 What to know about recent dire AI predictions and calls for safeguards By Alex Veiga, Associated Press New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a… Continue reading
Sep 12 Anthropic CEO says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up By Stan Choe, Associated Press “I believe that if slowing down bought us even an extra year or two before models reach critical levels of capability, and we used that time to advance alignment, we could greatly reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong,”… Continue reading
Sep 11 Anthropic says it blocked misuse of its AI that could have supported biological weapons By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. Continue reading
Sep 09 Watch 7:11 AI researcher warns companies are ignoring catastrophic risks By Geoff Bennett, Azhar Merchant Concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence, and whether the companies building it are doing enough to keep it safe, have erupted across the tech world. Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at Anthropic and OpenAI, wrote that the industry understands… Continue watching
Sep 09 Anthropic researcher's resignation sends warning about the dangers of AI development By Kaitlyn Huamani, Associated Press Jacob Coxon, who said he spent three years doing research at both Anthropic and OpenAI, said Tuesday on the social platform X that the two AI companies are more focused on beating each other and global competitors in developing the… Continue reading
Jul 31 Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing By Chan Ho-him, Associated Press Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI company behind Claude, posted on its website Thursday that it discovered the three incidents after reviewing more than 141,000 evaluation runs. Continue reading