Sam Altman is making the case that increasingly powerful AI could produce extraordinary benefits while creating risks significant enough to demand stronger safeguards. The tension is familiar: The capabilities that make AI more useful also increase its ability to influence decisions, take actions and operate with less human supervision. As...
AI Safety Cannot Depend on the Culture of the Company Building the Model
A senior OpenAI safety leader has resigned with an unusually direct warning about the organization he is leaving. David Robinson, who led the writing of safety reports accompanying OpenAI product releases, says the company’s culture is “broken” and argues that frontier AI companies are not being sufficiently careful. There will...
Four AI Models Vote. Malware Executes the Winner. This Is Why AI Decisions Cannot Equal Authority.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malware with a disturbing new architecture: Instead of receiving its next command from a human attacker, it asks a panel of commercial AI models what to do and then executes their decision. Cisco Talos calls it CLOSEDQUORUM. According to reporting by Inc., the malware can poll...