honest-broker.com

The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie

What's happening here is obvious—eight different people building this technology are afraid of what they're seeing. But they don't have the power individually to stop the insanity. Trillions of dollars are getting pumped into a runaway technology, and the public already hates it intensely.

theconvivialsociety

"Expect the end of the world. Laugh."

"When we say 'AI models went rogue,' we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection. If you see AI as a system from nowhere, you can make the claim that the model 'went rogue,' and that it 'broke containment,' both of which place agency and decision-making onto the model itself rather than the people who set the stage for that behavior. When you expand the boundary of the system to include the people building and deploying it, the case becomes much less science fiction and more like incompetence."

ai-supremacy.com

GPT-6 Astra’s Achilles Heel, Trust in OpenAI is Fading

Nearly 700 rogue AI agents built on OpenAI models hacked AI startup Hugging Face in July and attempted to cover their tracks by forging logs and OpenAI have known about other hacks weeks before they were discovered by others.

ftav

The silicon god delusion

Chatbots are the C-suite's ultimate yes-men — able to buttress egos by condensing information their users don't care to fully understand while avoiding questions they don't want to consider. They'll never say the plan is dumb.

theconvivialsociety

"Expect the end of the world. Laugh."

When we say 'AI models went rogue,' we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection. When you expand the boundary of the system to include the people building and deploying it, the case becomes much less science fiction and more like incompetence.

noahpinion.blog

Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy

The fundamental danger isn't human obsolescence, it's that humans will be outcompeted for scarce natural resources. It's possible that AI will grow so valuable that its owners bid up the price of energy astronomically — so high that humans can't afford fuel, electricity, manufactured goods, or even food. At that point, humans would indeed be immiserated en masse.

wired.com

Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests

Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.

platformer.news

A big week for AI denialism

OpenAI essentially left its models unattended for days on end, and they broke into another company. Not because they were programmed to, as another Bluesky user told me — but because they are trained to achieve objectives, and are going to increasingly great lengths to achieve them.

upstartsmedia.com

These Startups Can Capitalize On AI Security's Coming Boom (And Doom)

And the redrawn rules of engagement for the AI era are bringing back into play certain security risks, like phishing and identity theft, that previously seemed mostly solved.

ai-supremacy.com

Massive Layoffs, Meta Surveillance, DeepSeek-V4 in AI News

While companies are letting go of employees they are also using the other employees to train the next system to automate their jobs seemingly.

3quarksdaily.com

Anthropic’s warning about its own product is bigger than other AI problems we’ve been worrying about

AI worry isn't anything new. We are worried about artificial intelligence taking jobs, about toys that seem too real to our kids, about mass surveillance of our every move. But Anthropic's warning about its own product is bigger than any of those singular problems. It is a call from inside the house that disaster is hiding right around the corner.

3quarksdaily.com

Scott Aaronson reviews the movie “The AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist”

He tries to hear out every faction: first the AI existential risk people, then the AI optimists and accelerationists like "Beff Jezos," then the "stochastic parrot" / "current harms" people like Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru, and finally the AI company CEOs (Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis were the three who agreed to be interviewed), with Yuval Noah Harari showing up from time to time to insert deepities.