AI's Biggest Governance Blind Spot May Be the Human
Sam Altman is making the case that increasingly powerful AI could produce extraordinary benefits while creating risks significant enough to…
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,…
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,…
AI Agents Are Joining the Org Chart. Who Manages Their Behavior?
AI agents are beginning to show up in an unexpected place: The company org chart.WIRED reports that when Boston Consulting…
Anthropic Is Warning Investors About Losing Control of AI. The Architecture Needs to Change.
Anthropic is reportedly telling prospective investors that increasingly advanced artificial intelligence could pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity. According…
Nvidia's OpenShell Validates the Need for External AI Control. VERN OS Takes It Further.
Nvidia’s OpenShell introduces an important architectural principle into the rapidly expanding market for autonomous AI: The intelligence operating an agent…
The Banks Have Identified the Real Problem With AI Shopping Agents: Who Controls the Money?
Six major global banks have issued a warning about the emerging market for agentic commerce. Their concern is straightforward: Consumers…
AI Needs Accident Investigators. It Also Needs a Black Box and a Control Layer.
The aviation industry learned a fundamental lesson about safety decades ago: When a complex system fails, understanding what happened is…
AI Drift Is Real. The Answer Should Be More Human Control.
A new campaign from the Center for Humane Technology is putting the phrase “AI drift” in New York City subway…
MentalHealthBench Is Progress. It Also Exposes the Fundamental Problem With AI Mental Health.
OpenAI’s MentalHealthBench is a serious attempt to address a serious problem: Millions of people are already using generative AI for…
AI Hallucinations Aren’t Going Away. Their Authority Can.
One of the strangest things about modern AI is how convincingly it can be wrong. An answer can arrive beautifully…
Where Jev Fits With VERN
Jev is interesting because it separates a decision from the language model generating the conversation.That’s very close to how we’ve…
Jev Is a Fascinating New AI Model. It Also Shows Why AI Still Needs a Control Layer.
A new AI model called Jev is attracting developer attention by questioning one of the assumptions underlying the current AI…
The AI Industry Is Asking the United Nations for Control. We Need to Build It Into the Architecture.
The CEOs of two of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies appeared before the United Nations Security Council on September…
When AI Agents Escape, Who Controls What Happens Next?
The Associated Press has raised a question that would have sounded like science fiction a few years ago: Could a…
Agentic Control
VERN AI engineering field note Agentic Control Dennis Walters II · CTO · VERN AI Two runs of the same…
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
We are making one of the strangest engineering decisions in modern technology. We are building extraordinarily powerful artificial intelligence systems…
AI Researchers Changed One Guardrail. It Changed More Than They Expected.
There’s a tendency to talk about AI guardrails as though they were switches.Don’t say this. Don’t do that. Refuse these…
When Money and AI Safety Collide, Who Controls the AI?
The Wall Street Journal has put its finger on perhaps the most consequential conflict developing inside artificial intelligence.OpenAI and Anthropic…
AI Will Be Part of Childhood. The Question Is Who Controls the Experience.
AI Will Be Part of Childhood. The Question Is Who Controls the Experience.TL;DRDaniel Susskind makes a strong case against trying…
When the People Building the Most Powerful AI Say They Don’t Know How to Control It
When the People Building the Most Powerful AI Say They Don’t Know How to Control ItJacob Coxon spent the last…