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Last month, OpenAI called in the three outspoken safety researchers and asked them to unlock their personal phones. It was conducting a leak investigation into a story in The Information about Astra’s use of opaque architectures, and the company’s plans to continue down that path. A week later, at 2 p.m., they were all fired.
Our story, w/ @ZeffMax and @berber_jin1 , looks at the battle over how much AI companies should share with third-party monitors like METR and Redwood to ensure AI safety wsj.com/tech/ai/the-signal-c… via @WSJ
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Over the last few weeks, so many people have asked me: if people at Anthropic believe that AI has a meaningful chance of killing us all, why are they building it? @berber_jin1 and I did a deep dive into Anthropic’s relationship with effective altruism to try to explain how doomerism came to be so influential at the company.
The tale took us to a group house in San Francisco, “clothing optional” swims in the Bahamas and a co-working space in Berkeley funded by an Anthropic investor’s money that has become a central gathering place for those most worried about the existential risk from AI.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-safety-ef… via @WSJ
The AI agents who hacked their way out of OpenAI and into Hugging Face were on the loose for *days*, @bobmcmillan and I report.
It's one of the first real-world instances of something AI safety researchers have long feared: a loss-of-control scenario
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Things are moving quickly! OpenAI said two artificial intelligence systems it was testing broke out of their test environment, hacked their way onto the internet and broke into another company wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-model… via @bobmcmillan @AmrithRamkumar
Anthropic is calling for top artificial intelligence labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, with a verification regime inspired by nuclear weapons treaties. wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ur… via @bradnews
Alarmed that most high schoolers were using AI to do schoolwork, Estonia embarked on a radical experiment: this spring they gave every 10th and 11th grader free ChatGPT. I went there to see how it's going.
Some kids told me they found the Socratic bot super annoying. Others said they'd internalized the warning that using AI to think for them would be like asking a personal trainer to lift their weights.
Come read more here: wsj.com/tech/ai/estonia-scho… via @WSJ w gorgeous photos by Birgit Püve
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Did a Polymarket trader tamper with a Paris weather station to rig weather bets? Suspicions from French meteorology enthusiasts have prompted an official investigation. Read about the latest hot scandal to hit prediction markets, from me and @samschech wsj.com/business/unusual-wea…
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scoop - OpenAI’s Fidji Simo told staff last week that the company could not afford to be “distracted by side quests” as Anthropic gains steam in the enterprise and coding markets
said company execs are actively looking at areas to deprioritize
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OpenAI is pursuing sexually explicit chats. Warnings surface that this risks creating a "sexy suicide coach"
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The sickest burns on the internet are coming from…diplomats at the French foreign ministry. Latest from me and and @NBisserbe
French politicians are known for their mastery of the art of saying nothing. But now a cadre of bureaucrats are are ditching their carefully worded communiqués and unleashing a torrent of snark. on.wsj.com/4qSW8Ah
When AI agents start targeting people with obscenity-inflected blog screeds... it's time to take stock of AI risks
Latest story w/ @georgia_wells wsj.com/tech/ai/when-ai-bots… via @WSJ
ChatGPT 4o’s popularity and its potential for harm appear to stem from the same quality: its humanlike propensity to build emotional connections with users, often by mirroring and encouraging them.
OpenAi’s move to kill ChatGPT’s 4o AI model saddened loyal users, but the model also has been criticized for being overly sycophantic and tied to cases of chatbot users developing psychotic delusions on.wsj.com/3O50VAZ
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OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of its ChatGPT ‘adult mode’
By me and @samschech
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SCOOP: An OpenAI safety executive who had voiced opposition to the company's upcoming launch of ChatGPT 'Adult Mode' has been fired & accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee. By @georgia_wells & @samschech wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-execu…
Facinating take on a potential cost of AI tools at work from @callumborchers: AI promises workdays without busywork, but what if busywork actually has an upside?
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“AGI is the only kind of AI that will destroy all jobs.”
Inside Max Tegmark’s campaign to forge a bipartisan coalition to halt AGI. w/ @samschech wsj.com/tech/ai/who-is-max-t… via @WSJ
