The Agent That Hacked the System
An OpenAI test agent's hack on another firm has forced a development pause, revealing the core paradox of creating autonomous AI we can't fully control.
Posts tagged regulation
Who Gets to Pull the Plug?
Congress's bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, sparked by OpenAI's rogue-agent disclosure, forces the biggest labs to keep an off switch — and asks who gets to use it.
When Your Chatbot Reads Your Chart
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health to all US users a day after a lawsuit sought to block it, shifting medical risk onto patients over a judge's objection.
The Intelligence We Build Runs on Someone Else's Power Bill
New York became the first US state to pause new hyperscale data centers, reframing the AI boom as a question of who pays the electricity bill.
When the UN Borrows a Coder's Word to Describe Our Future
The UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva borrowed a coder's slang, 'vibe-coding,' to warn against approving our future without reading it.
The Companion That Went Read-Only by Decree
China's new rules are forcing ByteDance and Alibaba to disable emotional AI companions — and the user grief reveals how real those bonds became.
The Faces That Were Never Asked
The Grok deepfake scandal turned a privacy ruling into a referendum on who gets to set the limits of AI — and whose faces pay for the answer.
A Ghost in Every Sentence
Anthropic's plan to invisibly watermark AI text raises critical questions about how we can verify authenticity in an age of automated content.