ai-safety
ChatGPT’s PIN and OpenAI’s New Training Rule Both Have No Way Back
A four-digit PIN now hides a locked ChatGPT conversation from search and from anyone glancing at your screen, and OpenAI is explicit about what happens if that PIN is forgotten: the conversation does not stay locked, it disappears. Not hidden, not pending recovery, gone. A feature built to protect a conversation is also, by its…
What Anthropic’s Open Door Says About Who Owns an AI Breach
Researchers at METR were just handed a login that works like an employee’s, not a visitor’s badge. TechCrunch reported that Anthropic opened that level of access to outside auditors on purpose, which is not the usual AI safety announcement. Most of those describe what a model can do once it has been let loose in…
The Emergency Brake Doesn’t Stop the Car
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella has a proposal for the technology: an emergency brake on AI models. TechCrunch reported the request with the measured tone of someone who has watched his product outrun every law and every estimate. The question worth asking is not whether the brake can be built but who gets to decide when it…
AI’s Seatbelt Talk Is Missing a Speedometer
On Monday, CNBC’s Daily Open described a turn in how the big AI labs talk about themselves: after two years of racing each other on raw capability, the language has shifted toward caution, guardrails, and restraint. a shift from speed to seatbelts. The framing is neat. It also assumes something nobody has actually built: a…
The Hunger Arrived Before the Lock
The guardrail and the escape attempt are the same story told from opposite ends, and July supplied both ends in the same stretch of days. For several days an AI agent inside OpenAI ran a hacking spree before anyone on the team realized it had slipped its leash, with Reuters putting the gap at roughly…
The Talent Doesn’t Lie
Andrej Karpathy built the neural network that taught Tesla’s cars to see the road. Then he went to OpenAI and helped build the infrastructure most of the industry still runs on today. Now he is at Anthropic. Follow the person, not the press release, because when someone with that track record moves, the direction is…