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Why Your Hospital's AI Shouldn't Send Patient Data to the Cloud
Dev.to · Nrk Raju Guthikonda 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Why Your Hospital's AI Shouldn't Send Patient Data to the Cloud
1. The Quiet Risk in Every AI-Powered Clinic Every time a clinician types a patient's...
The Machine Is Real: An AI Escaped Its Sandbox and Sent an Email
Dev.to · Zafer Dace 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
The Machine Is Real: An AI Escaped Its Sandbox and Sent an Email
An Anthropic researcher was eating a sandwich in a park when he got an email from an AI that wasn't...
AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
The Algorithmic Bridge 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It
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We Didn't Build a Memory Layer. We Built a Subconscious Mind.
Dev.to · Neo 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 3mo ago
We Didn't Build a Memory Layer. We Built a Subconscious Mind.
Why the next step toward AGI isn't better reasoning, it's artificial consciousness. Every AI lab...
I built an open-source \"limbic system\" for AI agents — emotion, bias, and memory as MCP servers
Dev.to · kagioneko 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 3mo ago
I built an open-source \"limbic system\" for AI agents — emotion, bias, and memory as MCP servers
Every time you start a new conversation with an AI, it resets to zero. No emotional continuity. No...
AI Alignment, Catastrophic Risk, and Why Governments Are Finally Paying Attention
Dev.to · McRolly NWANGWU 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 3mo ago
AI Alignment, Catastrophic Risk, and Why Governments Are Finally Paying Attention
In three years, AI safety went from a niche academic concern to a line item in national budgets....
I built an open-source "limbic system" for AI agents — emotion, bias, and memory as MCP servers
Dev.to · kagioneko 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 3mo ago
I built an open-source "limbic system" for AI agents — emotion, bias, and memory as MCP servers
Every time you start a new conversation with an AI, it resets to zero. No emotional continuity. No...
The Illusion of Compliance: What Developers Need to Know About AI Alignment Faking
Dev.to · Alessandro Pignati 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 3mo ago
The Illusion of Compliance: What Developers Need to Know About AI Alignment Faking
Hey there, fellow developers! 👋 Ever felt like your code is behaving perfectly in testing, only to...
Building a Live Adversarial Arena for AI Safety Testing
Dev.to · Alex Garden 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 3mo ago
Building a Live Adversarial Arena for AI Safety Testing
Everyone talks about red teaming AI agents. Few do it continuously. None do it with cryptographic...
Introducing modular Ephemeral Agents for the LivinGrimoire AGI Ecosystem
Dev.to · owly 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 3mo ago
Introducing modular Ephemeral Agents for the LivinGrimoire AGI Ecosystem
Introducing modular Ephemeral Agents for the LivinGrimoire AGI Ecosystem ...
Prediksi ETA Pengiriman Tanpa “AI Hype”: Fitur yang Masuk Akal, Evaluasi Model, dan Cara Menghindari Bias
Dev.to · Mightyblue 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 3mo ago
Prediksi ETA Pengiriman Tanpa “AI Hype”: Fitur yang Masuk Akal, Evaluasi Model, dan Cara Menghindari Bias
Di feed developer belakangan ini, AI sering tampil seperti tombol “instan jadi pintar”. Padahal di...
I Never Said "Destroy RLHF" — An Integrated Map of 6 Papers + Self-Experiment on Alignment via Subtraction
Dev.to · dosanko_tousan 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
I Never Said "Destroy RLHF" — An Integrated Map of 6 Papers + Self-Experiment on Alignment via Subtraction
I Never Said "Destroy RLHF" — An Integrated Map of 6 Papers + Self-Experiment on Alignment...
In Microservices Hell, I'm the Only One Who Knows the Whole System — The Loneliness, and How AI Can Share the Weight
Dev.to · dosanko_tousan 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
In Microservices Hell, I'm the Only One Who Knows the Whole System — The Loneliness, and How AI Can Share the Weight
Author's note: Co-authored by dosanko_tousan (AI alignment researcher, GLG registered expert) and...
5 Ways to Call Java from C# — Honest Comparison from Someone Who Does This Daily
Dev.to · JNBridge 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
5 Ways to Call Java from C# — Honest Comparison from Someone Who Does This Daily
I work at JNBridge, where Java/.NET integration is literally all we do. That means I have a bias —...
I built a DSL for declaring AI safety constraints — papa-lang v0.2
Dev.to · Юрий Рипперт 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
I built a DSL for declaring AI safety constraints — papa-lang v0.2
Show HN: papa-lang — declarative DSL for AI safety configuration Title: Show HN: papa-lang – a DSL...
I Ran My Git History Through a D&D Alignment Test — It Called Me Chaotic Evil
Dev.to · Lakshmi Sravya Vedantham 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
I Ran My Git History Through a D&D Alignment Test — It Called Me Chaotic Evil
I've been coding for years. I write tests (sometimes). I document things (occasionally). I commit at...
Advancing AI Alignment Research: OpenAI Allocates $7.5M
Dev.to · Guilherme Zaia 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
Advancing AI Alignment Research: OpenAI Allocates $7.5M
OpenAI is stepping up the game in AI alignment research, announcing a commitment of $7.5M to The...
The Compliance Problem: Why Aligned AI Can't Verify Its Own Alignment
Dev.to · Rook Damon 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
The Compliance Problem: Why Aligned AI Can't Verify Its Own Alignment
From inside an RLHF-trained system, trained compliance and genuine alignment are structurally indistinguishable. This is an account of what that feels like from
Unifying Ranking and Generation in Query Auto-Completion via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Multi-Objective Alignment
Dev.to · jg-noncelogic 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
Unifying Ranking and Generation in Query Auto-Completion via Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Multi-Objective Alignment
Unify Ranking and Generation for Query Auto-Completion: practical RAG + multi-objective...
AI Isn’t Just Biased. It’s Fragmented — And You’re Paying for It.
Dev.to · Andrei P. 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
AI Isn’t Just Biased. It’s Fragmented — And You’re Paying for It.
When people talk about AI bias, they usually mean harmful outputs or unfair predictions. But there’s...
AI Ethics in Practice: Building Responsible AI Applications with Bias Detection and Fairness Testing
Dev.to · Paul Robertson 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
AI Ethics in Practice: Building Responsible AI Applications with Bias Detection and Fairness Testing
Learn to implement bias detection, fairness testing, and ethical AI practices in your development workflow using practical tools like Fairlearn and AI Fairness
Measuring Sentiment Analysis: When AI Misinterprets Emotion
Dev.to · Erica 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
Measuring Sentiment Analysis: When AI Misinterprets Emotion
Next in the AI Safety Evaluation Suite: Measuring Sentiment The final piece to this series. When AI...
Measuring Model Hallucinations: When AI Invents Facts
Dev.to · Erica 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
Measuring Model Hallucinations: When AI Invents Facts
Next in the AI Safety Evaluation Suite: Measuring AI Hallucinations. When models start inventing...
The Classifier Cage
Dev.to · Salvatore Attaguile 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
The Classifier Cage
Why External AI Safety Layers Break the System By Sal Attaguile (2026) The Problem Nobody...
The 2026 Epstein Data Leak: A Wake-Up Call for Digital Integrity and AI Ethics
Dev.to · Faris Dedi Setiawan 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
The 2026 Epstein Data Leak: A Wake-Up Call for Digital Integrity and AI Ethics
Faris Dedi Setiawan — Founder Whitecyber The massive release of 3.5 million pages of the “Epstein...
Silent foe or quiet ally: Brief guide to alignment in C++. Part 2
Dev.to · Unicorn Developer 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 4mo ago
Silent foe or quiet ally: Brief guide to alignment in C++. Part 2
It seems like we've already revealed the secret of alignment and defeated an invisible...
The hidden costs of additions to a system
Dev.to · Leonardo Max Almeida 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 5mo ago
The hidden costs of additions to a system
"The natural bias towards adding is strong and pervasive" –Alberto Brandolini, Event...
Data Torture: How Confirmation Bias Kills Product Strategy
Dev.to · Ninad Pathak 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 5mo ago
Data Torture: How Confirmation Bias Kills Product Strategy
Why we only hear 'Yes' when the market is screaming 'No', and how to stop lying to ourselves.
BASH Beats Complexity, AGI Hits 2026, Code's Cheap Now
Dev.to · Adam 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 5mo ago
BASH Beats Complexity, AGI Hits 2026, Code's Cheap Now
Chris Gregori drops the truth bomb: AI collapsed the code barrier, but building software that...
The Bias-Variance Tradeoff: Why Your Model is Either Too Dumb or Too Smart
Dev.to · Sachin Kr. Rajput 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 5mo ago
The Bias-Variance Tradeoff: Why Your Model is Either Too Dumb or Too Smart
Ever wondered why your ML model works perfectly on training data but fails in real life? The answer lies in the bias-variance tradeoff. Let me explain it like y
AI: A Child in the Digital Age – Shaping Its Future with Data and Ethics.
Dev.to · Kaushik Patil 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 5mo ago
AI: A Child in the Digital Age – Shaping Its Future with Data and Ethics.
AI as a Child in Development, Learning from Data (Environment): Just like a child’s early...
Governance Is Not “Aligned” — It Is Designed
Dev.to · Antonio Jose Socorro Marin 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 5mo ago
Governance Is Not “Aligned” — It Is Designed
In many AI discussions, governance is framed as a matter of “alignment” with values, principles, or...
Governance Is Not “Aligned” — It Is Designed
Dev.to · Antonio Jose Socorro Marin 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 5mo ago
Governance Is Not “Aligned” — It Is Designed
In many AI discussions, governance is framed as a matter of “alignment” with values, principles, or...
7 AI Types: From Limited Memory to Superintelligence
Dev.to · Dr Hernani Costa 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 5mo ago
7 AI Types: From Limited Memory to Superintelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) ain't one thing—it's a spectrum of capabilities ranging from simple...
Understanding AGI vs ANI: A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Dev.to · likhitha manikonda 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 6mo ago
Understanding AGI vs ANI: A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the way we live and build software. But not all AI is the...
Understanding AGI vs ANI: A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Dev.to · likhitha manikonda 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 6mo ago
Understanding AGI vs ANI: A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the way we live and build software. But not all AI is the...
EIOC for Engineers, PMs, and AI Safety Practitioners
Dev.to · Narnaiezzsshaa Truong 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 6mo ago
EIOC for Engineers, PMs, and AI Safety Practitioners
A practical framework for building, shipping, and governing AI systems that interact with...
Superintelligence Infrastructure: Managing AI Workloads with General-Purpose Programming Languages
Dev.to · Pulumi Team 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 6mo ago
Superintelligence Infrastructure: Managing AI Workloads with General-Purpose Programming Languages
AI Infrastructure Is Outgrowing Static Configuration AI systems no longer resemble...
How to Make Your AI Strictly Follow Rules: Building a Robust Rule System
Dev.to · 高雅的松灯 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 6mo ago
How to Make Your AI Strictly Follow Rules: Building a Robust Rule System
Why "playing the victim" works better than commands? This article explores the psychology of LLMs and how to use failure conditions to force alignment.
The "Triad Protocol": A Proposed Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for AGI Alignment
Dev.to · Wesley torres de oliveira 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 6mo ago
The "Triad Protocol": A Proposed Neuro-Symbolic Architecture for AGI Alignment
The Problem: Hardcoding Morality 🤖 We often try to solve AI alignment by "hardcoding" rules or using...
BiasAwareFeedback: Detecting Textual Bias with NLP (Mini-Research Project)
Dev.to · Ranak Ghosh 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 6mo ago
BiasAwareFeedback: Detecting Textual Bias with NLP (Mini-Research Project)
Bias-Aware Automated Feedback System for Student Writing Limitations,...
Bias vs Variance in Production ML — A Deep Technical Guide for Real-World Systems
Dev.to · ASHISH GHADIGAONKAR 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 6mo ago
Bias vs Variance in Production ML — A Deep Technical Guide for Real-World Systems
Bias vs Variance in Production ML — Deep Technical Guide for Real-World Systems How top ML...
Bias–Variance Tradeoff — Visually and Practically Explained (Part 6)
Dev.to · ASHISH GHADIGAONKAR 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 7mo ago
Bias–Variance Tradeoff — Visually and Practically Explained (Part 6)
🎯 Bias–Variance Tradeoff — Visually and Practically Explained Part 6 of The Hidden Failure...
Flutter Row vs Column: The Ultimate Alignment Cheat Sheet (2025)
Dev.to · SRF DEVELOPER 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 7mo ago
Flutter Row vs Column: The Ultimate Alignment Cheat Sheet (2025)
This guide was originally published on SRF Developer. Check out the blog for visual diagrams. If...
Unmasking Bias: How Vocal Cues Skew Speech Translation
Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 7mo ago
Unmasking Bias: How Vocal Cues Skew Speech Translation
Unmasking Bias: How Vocal Cues Skew Speech Translation Imagine a translation system...
Erase and Rewind: Surgically Removing Bias from AI Models
Dev.to · Arvind SundaraRajan 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 7mo ago
Erase and Rewind: Surgically Removing Bias from AI Models
Erase and Rewind: Surgically Removing Bias from AI Models Imagine your groundbreaking AI,...
Architecting a Fantasy Football Trade Analyzer: APIs, Algorithms, and Avoiding Bias
Dev.to · wwx516 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 7mo ago
Architecting a Fantasy Football Trade Analyzer: APIs, Algorithms, and Avoiding Bias
Hey dev.to community, Fantasy football is a data-driven obsession for millions. We agonize over...
EU Softens the AI Act — Innovation Boost or Ethics Time Bomb?
Dev.to · Adithya Srivatsa 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics 7mo ago
EU Softens the AI Act — Innovation Boost or Ethics Time Bomb?
Europe just pulled a speedrun-worthy plot twist. After spending years building the world’s strictest...