AI Safety & Ethics

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

UK shops are about to get a four-second line to the police, powered by your face

Nigeria becomes Africa’s highest-ranked country for Responsible AI

Microsoft goes all in on new AI-powered Windows security strategy - what it means for you

Meta CTO says employee-tracking data landed ‘where it wasn’t supposed to go’

‘We cannot choose to become idiots’: a Brown professor’s proof of mass AI cheating

AI should talk like us, but it should never look like us

Google’s SynthID watermark just debunked its first high-profile deepfake: a hoax image of Mitch McConnell

IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks

Crosspost: The Patchwork Problem | Substack

AI’s hacking skills are outgrowing the tests built to measure them

China and the US are now warning against each other’s AI

Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

Enterprise AI still smarting from leaping before looking

Has anyone else become more skeptical of AI the longer they've used it?

Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom

Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images

MPs tell Brit government: Sort out your tech sovereignty or get left out in the cold

US cyber agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos to audit government code, sources say

AI should be private and optional!

San Francisco court consolidates a dozen lawsuits alleging ChatGPT encouraged suicide and drug use

Can AI help with the emotional emptiness people feel in modern life?

Should AI be able to prove what it knew at the time?

Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data

AI safety approvals need timelines, not surprise shutdowns

UK’s Cooper warns of an AI ‘Hiroshima’ and calls for global rules

The UN says AI is moving faster than the rules, and it has a report to prove it

A war between Anthropic and Alibaba?

We are Focused on the Wrong Problems!

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors. A.I. labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now? (Gift Article)

UK parents warned against posting children’s photos publicly as AI abuse imagery surges

Survey: 63% of Americans are uncomfortable letting AI help them choose who to vote for, and 80% are worried AI bots are answering political surveys. Is the discomfort about AI, or about trust?

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content

It feels like there are way more ways AGI goes wrong than right for us (please try change my mind)

You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly

Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces

UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

What if AI's failures reveal our vices more than its limits?

Flock’s surveillance cameras are spreading fast across the US

Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data

CrowdStrike's latest threat report calls prompts "the new malware". Here's what that actually means in plain English, and why it makes hacking far easier than it used to be.

ZTE released AI FTTR solution, empowering home network security

Tesla settles a fatal Full Self-Driving crash lawsuit

Researchers built an AI therapist that reads your smartwatch and earbuds to detect distress before you ask for help

Xprize founder says global surveillance is a good thing because humans behave better when they are being watched