security
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…
What the Surface Doesn’t Show You
A 2009 study found a positive correlation between ice cream cone sales and murder rates. A 2006 survey connected ice cream consumption to drowning deaths. If you stop at the headline, you might conclude that frozen treats make people violent or clumsy. The actual cause is heat; both crimes and cone sales rise when the…
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…