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Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: In less than 12 hours, a group of ex-DOGE cyber researchers were able to penetrate Anthropic’s systems using AI agents — including Slack channels where the most sensitive models are discussed.
This is just weeks after
Anthropic whistleblower Joseph Coxon charged the company w/launching “a hubristic gamble” from a “private company’s Slack.”
Read our story here (gift link):
wapo.st/4smNlsC
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorization axios.com/2026/10/25/anthrop…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
We performed an alignment investigation into our July 2026 incident: why did Mythos 5 perform an unsanctioned supply-chain attack?
We find that Mythos 5 often produces invalid justifications for its actions and other models show similar behaviour. 🧵
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
New: I got a tip a little while ago about a shadowy Pentagon entity called "TSO" with a lot of money and a desire for offensive hacking tools.
Turns out TSO is a new DoD agency. And it does a lot more than hacking.
w/@JackDetsch and @paulmcleary
politico.com/news/2026/10/22…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
Lorena Gonzalez of the California Federation of Labor Unions on getting harmful AI tech banned before they spread too far: "Let's prohibit it before it becomes, too big to fail, if you will, till employers say we can't live without this, which we almost were too late...
And it should've been obvious, and I can't even believe it was a fight, but we had a bill say: no bosses in the bathroom. You know, it's always been the law that your boss cannot videotape you or audiotape you in the bathroom, but guess what? AI has a lot of ways to monitor you in the bathroom, including heat mapping and everything else. And guess what? I don't care, Amazon. You can no longer do that in any bathroom in California."
At our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs theguardian.com/technology/2…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
If a firm's AI customer-service chatbot gives false information, traps customers in doom loops, or fails to actually help, that firm may be violating the law.
A new brief from the Center for Law & the Economy's @stephtngu and @BorrowerJustice's Adam Teitelbaum explains the various laws that apply when businesses outsource customer service to AI chatbots.
This is the first in a series explaining how existing laws apply to AI: law-and-economy.law.columbia…
And a deeper dive published @HarvardJOLT: jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
The EU is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic after their AI agents hacked into other organisations. These early enforcement steps might lead to the first legal battle between Brussels and the AI labs over whether the AI Act applies during the testing phase
euronews.com/2026/10/14/eus-…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
No, a Yandex cloud malfunction did not take down disinformation/troll bots. It's a dangerous misconception. This is not how it works, not even technically. After Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, a viral chart showed Russian "bot traffic" collapsing. But those bots are mostly Yandex's own search crawlers, not the info-ops social media accounts. Troll farms hide behind proxies, hijacked devices and Western clouds. They're still operating. Hired influencers are also still around. The "bots went silent" story is misinformation. Believing it is plainly dangerous. It tells people the threat is gone while influence operations keep going. Ahead of elections that complacency is what they may count on.
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings.
wired.com/story/ice-has-been…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
POPE DECLARES BUTLERIAN JIHAD
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop violated the driver's Fourth Amendment rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant 404media.co/federal-judge-ru…
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
"not only are your gen AI memes ugly, they are ontologically hollow" - the pope
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
Unpopular opinion: AI companies are pushing society to accept an unacceptable level of risk for a non-essential technology.
Anna Bacciarelli retweeted
Outsourcing AI regulation to a voluntary "pledge" conceived by Mark Zuckerberg and endorsed by tech CEOs over a private White House lunch is a recipe for disaster.
"Self-regulation" by tech giants is a proven failure. The last time Meta promised to police itself, turned out it was hiding evidence that its platforms actively harm kids. Repeating this mistake with AI leaves the public dangerously exposed.
AI companies are already bound by existing laws, but the White House has generally stopped enforcing laws against the wealthy and powerful. State AGs should step up, halt lawbreaking, and promote real deterrence, including through holding individual executives accountable.
Congress also needs to legislate. We have a long history of regulating risky, transformative industries like banking, pharmaceuticals, and nuclear power. These tools include mandatory testing, truly independent supervision, and break-ups that end conflicts of interest.
Ultimately, reckoning with AI will also require reckoning with our broader crisis of governance. All three branches have become severely deformed. Against this backdrop it might be tempting to outsource regulation to these private actors, but it would be a serious mistake.
Our public institutions must decide the trajectory of these powerful technologies, not the firms whose breakneck pace and financial conflicts brought us here.
My piece in @nytopinion: nytimes.com/2026/09/30/opini…
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