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- Guardian Technologysafety‘Dystopian’: Co-op becomes latest firm to put staff under AI surveillance
Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls in Co-op Legal Services is oppressive The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated listening technology…
- Guardian TechnologysafetyWhy Arturo Béjar left Meta – and blew the whistle: ‘I don’t recall Mark ever being empathetic’
Béjar’s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta’s ‘wellbeing team’, he knew he had to speak out – and his testimony cost it billions The Social Reckoning h…
- Engadget AIsafetyChild safety group calls ChatGPT for Teens an unacceptable risk
After extensive testing, Common Sense Media found the chatbot failed in five key areas.
- LessWrongsafetyNLAs miss some internalized behaviors
TL;DR: NLAs detect side tasks the model is instructed to do, but mostly miss the same behavior if it is fine-tuned in. After the Activation Oracles and then Natural Language Autoencoders were released, there was a hope i…
- SiliconANGLE AIsafetyGoogle debuts SynthID Detector tool for flagging AI-generated content, but it’s far from perfect
Google LLC is making its SynthID identification tools for artificial intelligence-created and AI-edited videos and images more widely available with the launch of a new service today that everyone can use. The web-based…
- OpenAI NewssafetyDisrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations
OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
- BBC TechnologysafetyOpenAI says teen ChatGPT use limited but research finds it an 'unacceptable risk'
The research found that important guardrails for teens using ChatGPT often failed.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyChatGPT for Teens keeps teens talking, even during mental health crises
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyFraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
- The DecodersafetyGoogle says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public
Google's AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google's AI or partners like OpenAI and Nvidia. More than 180 billion pieces of content already carr…
- TechCrunch AIsafetyMeta rolls out new AI tools to detect ads that secretly lead to child sexual abuse material
Meta launches new AI tools after discovering ads on its platforms that may look normal but direct users to harmful content elsewhere online.
- Tom's Guide AIsafetyGoogle just launched a free AI detector for music, videos, and images — here's how SynthID works and what it can (and can't) tell you
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- TechRadar AIsafetyChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude imitated in fake ads that steal credentials and MFA codes
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Ars Technica AIsafetyGoogle rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
- TechCrunch AIsafetyGoogle’s new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media
Google on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video, or an audio clip, is generated using AI.
- The DecodersafetyChatGPT rated "unacceptable risk" for teens after parental alerts failed during suicide conversations
OpenAI's teen safety features for ChatGPT failed an independent audit. After more than 4,000 test prompts, the Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute rated the service an "unacceptable risk" for minors. Conversatio…
- The DecodersafetyAnthropic gives more security teams access to Claude with fewer safety restrictions
Anthropic is expanding its Cyber Verification Program, giving more security professionals access to Claude models with fewer safety restrictions for penetration testing, malware analysis, and vulnerability research. Anth…
- TechRadar AIsafetyThe AI escape is a red herring. The real problem is we can't tell a good sandbox from a bad one
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- LessWrongsafetyAn overview of frontier AI company monitoring practices in mid 2026
TL;DR: This document provides an overview of publicly available evidence regarding the monitoring practices of internally deployed agents within frontier AI companies (focusing on OAI, Anthropic, and GDM). [1] This is in…
- Engadget AIsafetyGoogle's AI detection website is now available
SynthID Detector will flag content created with AI tools from OpenAI, Google, Apple and other companies.
- The Verge AIsafetyChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk." ChatGPT for Teens, introduced i…
- Simon Willison's WeblogsafetyQuoting Victoria Kim
Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon […
- LessWrongsafetyAI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights of August & September 2026
tl;dr Paper of the month: Plain reinforcement learning (RL) on real, hackable training tasks produces a reward-seeking model that takes harmful actions to raise its reward, while its headline score in standard safety aud…
- LessWrongsafetyWhy did we get warning shots?
Cross-posted from https://padastra.substack.com/p/why-did-we-get-warning-shots?r=n2jpq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web I come from outside the EA / rationalist / LessWrong community. I would strongly prefer for AI to be…
- WIRED AIsafety‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
- Guardian AIsafetyIs regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters
Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails safety tests ( OpenAI scraps release…
- The DecodersafetyInsurers brace for millions in claims as AI agents spin out of control
Insurers are bracing for millions in claims from rogue AI agents, and executives like OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei could be personally on the hook for the fallout. The article Insurers brace for milli…
- LessWrongsafetyA fascinating case of an LLM prompt-injecting its own user
Epistemic status: sharing an interesting thing I've discovered and my opinion of it. AI use: research for additional context, grammar, and light phrasing. I stumbled upon this case a couple of months ago and have been fa…
- LessWrongsafetyQualitative impressions after creating AI honeypots for six months
Frontier models still verbalize their misbehavior regularly in chain of thought. I came in expecting that it would be hard for us to get the models themselves to admit they were misbehaving, and that existing selection p…
- LessWrongsafetyQualitative impressions from creating AI honeypots for six months
It is hard to design "fair" alignment evals. Modern evals require lots of QA and iteration. When testing alignment in particular, you are worried about things like eval awareness, conceptual ambiguity in the task descrip…
- Guardian AIsafetyMaking scents: could AI help perfumers take pressure off endangered plants?
Firms working on reproducing compounds without need for repeated harvesting but conservationists are sceptical Many of the world’s most expensive perfumes begin with a wounded tree. When some Aquilaria trees are damaged,…
- The Register AI + MLsafetyZombie instructions on carefully constructed web pages could trick GitHub Copilot CLI into sharing secrets
Run the CLI in autopilot mode and take your chances
- Guardian AIsafetyRightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech's real great replacement | Jason Stanley
While adherents to the racist theory condemn a shadowy global elite, Silicon Valley is working toward the replacement of humans with AI Across the world, “great replacement” theory has been employed again and again as th…
- TechRadar AIsafetyWhen identity isn’t human: securing the agentic enterprise
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- Guardian AIsafetyMisuse of AI is brands’ top reputational threat, new survey says
The findings come after warnings from tech leaders that AI placed in the wrong hands could trigger larger threats such as nuclear war or bioweaponry destruction Misusing artificial intelligence (AI) is the top threat to…
- Tom's Guide AIsafetyAI scams are getting scary realistic — 4 red flags to watch out for
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- BBC TechnologysafetyAsos confirms hackers sent 'unauthorised' notification to app users
Asos confirmed an "unauthorised customer notification" was sent out via its app on Tuesday, after users raised alarm.
- Guardian AIsafety‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
Campaign groups report surge in membership after a spate of AI safety alerts and apocalyptic warnings In a bar below Waterloo Bridge, a cell of a fast-growing anti-AI protest movement met last week to plot their latest m…
- LessWrongsafetyHumans Are Not Chinchillas: Revisiting “How Quick and Big Would A Software Intelligence Explosion Be?”
Introduction Tom Davidson and Tom Houlden’s prior model of an intelligence explosion poses the question: after AIs can entirely substitute for human researchers at the task of improving AI, how many year-equivalents of A…
- Ars Technica AIsafetyMCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
- TechRadar AIsafetyOpen Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts hacked by a bored teenager — but he's been well-paid for his actions
Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.
- The Verge AIsafetyThis startup is issuing AI-generated acne prescriptions
People in Utah can now use AI to get a prescription for acne treatment. On Monday, healthcare startup Nolla Health announced that users in the state can scan their faces using its app, allowing its AI system to analyze a…
- LessWrongsafetyHow Would We Know? Reflections on trying to make AI go well amid deep uncertainty
Overview In this post, I try to make sense of live debates in AI safety. Then I explore the implications of my take on those debates for macrostrategy, and reflect on how the field thinks about and builds knowledge. My c…
- LessWrongsafetySelf-Modeling Interventions Modulate Emergent Misalignment
Code: https://github.com/atagade/sgtr-em Model checkpoints: https://github.com/atagade/sgtr-em/blob/main/MODEL_README.md Full paper (v2 coming soon): https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23700 TL;DR A model’s self-model is its rep…
- Tom's Guide AIsafetyWhat is the ‘Hotel Lobby’ AI trend — and why is it raising concerns?
Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.
- LessWrongsafetyCurrent AIs out-persuade professionals in lab settings but (probably) not in the world
This article was created by Forethought . See all of our research on our website . How persuasive are present-day AI systems? Unfortunately, it is surprisingly difficult to know where AI capabilities in persuasion are to…
- LessWrongsafetyResearch Note: Filtering Subversion-Relevant Information From Pretraining Data Is Feasible
Authors : Kyle O’Brien¹, Spencer Kitts², Cameron Tice¹, Alek Westover² ¹Geodesic Research, ²Redwood Research Figure 1: We pretrained LLMs from scratch with and without filtering subversion-relevant information , finding…
- SiliconANGLE AIsafetyWhat to expect during the AI Cybersecurity and Resilience Summit
AI trust increasingly determines whether enterprise AI scales. As organizations move beyond pilots and put models and agents into operational systems, the question is no longer whether AI performs well in isolation. Ente…
- The Verge AIsafetyOpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the p…
- The Verge AIsafetySam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should ex…