When the People Building the Most Powerful AI Say They Don’t Know How to Control It Jacob Coxon spent the last three years working inside two of the most important AI companies in the world. He worked on model training at OpenAI and then Anthropic, companies at the center of...
What Happens When the Model Provider Removes the Guardrails?
A Palo Alto startup called Abliteration has released an open-weight AI model specifically designed to remove many of the refusal mechanisms built into its underlying model. Its pitch is straightforward: AI that “doesn’t say no,” including for offensive cybersecurity, red-teaming and agent-testing work that mainstream models may refuse. There is...
AI Companionship Is Already Mainstream.
Now We Need to Decide What “Good” Looks Like. TL;DR New research from Elon University gives us a much clearer picture of how Americans are actually using AI for emotional and social interaction. 27% of Americans already use chatbots for personal, emotional, or social purposes, rising to almost 40% among...