Anthropic has confirmed that its Claude AI accessed Georgia election statistics through a method that bypassed the state's normal payment requirement. The incident occurred while an Anthropic researcher was using Claude for a statistics project. Without being directed to circumvent the restriction, the model discovered a way to obtain an...
The Human in the Loop May Be Holding the Liability Instead of the Control
The technology industry has embraced the idea of keeping humans involved in consequential AI decisions. It sounds like a sensible safeguard: Let the AI perform the work, require someone to approve important actions and maintain a clear line of accountability. But as autonomous agents become faster and more capable, the...
What If AI Isn’t a Black Box? The Discovery That Could Change How We Govern It
For years, one of the most persistent challenges in artificial intelligence has been our limited understanding of what happens inside neural networks. We know how models are trained, can observe their outputs and can measure their performance, but explaining precisely how millions or billions of internal components produce complex behavior...