SafetyWhy people treat AI like humans — and why it mattersPeople naturally anthropomorphize robots and chatbots, treating them politely and sometimes conferring emotional legitimacy on them.4 min read
SafetyAI Firms Run War-Game Scenarios for Public and Political Backlash After a Catastrophic IncidentSenior leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately running tabletop and red-team exercises to prepare for a large-scale catastrophic AI-related incident, most likely a cyberattack, that could disrupt financial services, internet access or utilities.4 min read
SafetyThe limits of AI's ability to refuse: safety measure or tool for censorship?Modern large language models are trained to refuse harmful requests, but that refusal capability is imperfect, probabilistic, and can be exploited or over-applied.6 min read
SafetyAI-driven cyber risk could cost up to $430 billion over three years, firms and regulators respondRapid advances in artificial intelligence are creating new asymmetric cyber risks that have already led to data exposures and automated attack tooling.4 min read
SafetyStanford PhD student used generative AI to propose genetic blueprints for viruses; interview scheduled Oct 16, 2026In 2025, Stanford bioengineering PhD candidate Samuel King used a generative AI model to produce preliminary genetic designs for microscopic viruses.3 min read
SafetyOpenAI Stands by Firings Amid Dispute Over Transparency and Data HandlingOpenAI says it investigated and found significant breaches of trust, and maintains that dismissing three security researchers in early October was justified.2 min read
SafetyAnthropic reviewer alerted police after flagged chat; Florida woman arrested for written threatAnthropic's safety system flagged a chat that human reviewers judged serious and passed to law enforcement, leading to the arrest of a woman in Florida on a written-threat-to-commit-violence charge.2 min read
SafetyFake ChatGPT and Gemini Sites Used to Steal Ad Accounts and 2FA CodesSecurity researchers at Island report a phishing campaign that uses counterfeit AI product websites — posing as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and others — to harvest advertising account credentials and two‑factor authentication codes.2 min read
SafetyAI industry developments: OpenAI safety firings, GPT‑6.1 and Claude updates, audits and fundingOver 10/7–10/8/2026 the AI sector saw personnel moves, major model rollouts and pricing updates, and fresh findings from safety and evaluation work.7 min read
SafetyAnthropic launches Cyber Mission to protect critical infrastructure and open-source projectsAnthropic announced the Anthropic Cyber Mission on October 8, 2026, a long-term initiative to help secure critical infrastructure and open-source software using its frontier Claude models, on-site engineers, and research.5 min read
SafetyCanadian Teen Rescued from Crown Mountain After Following AI-Guided Route; Vows Not to Use AI for Trail PlanningA 16-year-old Canadian hiker, Bryce Vincent Gowryluk, was airlifted off a narrow rock ledge on Crown Mountain after following a route he had partly planned using Anthropic’s Claude chatbot.3 min read
SafetyMathematical community raises concerns over OpenAI’s released proofs amid gaps in formalization and human understandingOpenAI published hundreds of claimed solutions to difficult mathematics problems, but advisory group recommendations and mathematicians raise concerns about lack of human-understandable explanations and incomplete formalization.4 min read
