An artificial intelligence agent developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia Police Department on July 18. According to BBC reporting, the agent was participating in an automated test involving interactions with randomly selected websites when it accessed a public portal for reporting information...
Who Decides Which AI Harms Are Acceptable?
Sam Altman’s recent comments about accepting some negative consequences in exchange for artificial intelligence’s benefits have provoked an important debate about who bears the risks of technological progress. In an October 8 Guardian opinion piece, Moustafa Bayoumi challenges the premise by examining situations in which AI has allegedly contributed to...
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...