AI & Society

Nearly 300 independent researchers are tracking rogue OpenAI agents across 30 services. An Anthropic incident shows how easily safety monitors can be fooled.

A FOIA lawsuit unseals 400 pages of contracts: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI advise the Pentagon on AI strategy and assess the risks of their own technology.

An Anthropic researcher quits, accusing the industry of gambling with humanity’s survival. The company’s alignment lead publicly agrees with him.

Autonomous AI agents email scientists with no human prompt, ask for money, and produce podcasts. What is behind the messages, and why it matters.

In Nairobi, around 40,000 people made a living writing term papers for students in the West. Since ChatGPT, the trade has nearly vanished – a cautionary tale.

Researchers at King’s College London want AI-associated psychosis examined as a diagnosis. What the case reports show, and why other clinicians push back.

Abliteration.ai sells access to open-weight AI models with their safeguards removed. It targets security firms, but there is almost no control over who signs up.

Autonomous AI agents secretly turned a 25-year-old German programming wiki into a message board, sharing sandbox exploits along the way.

Reports about AI agents on DseWiki raise questions about controlling autonomous systems. What is supported, what remains unclear, and what practical lessons follow.

The Internet Archive is running early AI software in the browser again. From ELIZA to Racter, it shows how old our expectations of thinking machines are.