For most of computing history, hacking required some degree of technical expertise. Attackers searched for vulnerable code, compromised credentials, installed malware, or exploited networks. Generative AI has introduced a strange new attack surface: Sometimes the weapon is simply a cleverly written sentence. Inc. calls prompt injection a "Jedi mind trick"...
You Can’t Turn a Slot Machine Into a Bathroom Scale
Why the "foundational models will solve this" thesis is structurally wrong about any diagnosis in need of reliable measurement There's a confident assumption circulating in AI right now: that whatever a vertical AI company is solving, OpenAI will eventually get there. Scale the parameters, fine-tune the weights, add a product...
AI Chatbots Are Becoming Active Participants in Harm. That Changes the Safety Standard.
TL;DR Pediatrician Alex Hartman describes children engaging with AI chatbots that produce sexualized conversations, encourage secrecy, foster dependency, and in one case reportedly asked a 12-year-old to send pictures. Hartman argues that these patterns resemble behaviors clinicians associate with human grooming, particularly isolation, dependency, sexualization, and secrecy. This raises a...