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  • Slashdot: A ‘Godfather of AI’ Remains Concerned as Ever About Human Extinction

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/10/01/1422204/a-godfather-of-ai-remains-concerned-as-ever-about-human-extinction?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: A ‘Godfather of AI’ Remains Concerned as Ever About Human Extinction Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Yoshua Bengio’s call for a pause in AI model development to prioritize safety standards, emphasizing the significant risks posed by advanced AI. Despite major investments in AI…

  • Cloud Blog: The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/global-harms-restrictive-cloud-licensing-one-year-later/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The global harms of restrictive cloud licensing, one year later Feedly Summary: A year ago today, Google Cloud filed a formal complaint with the European Commission about Microsoft’s anti-competitive cloud licensing practices — specifically those that impose financial penalties on businesses that use Windows Server software on Azure’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Bruce Schneier

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/27/bruce-schneier/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Bruce Schneier Feedly Summary: We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks. Any AI that is working in an adversarial environment—and by this I mean that it may encounter untrusted training data or…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/adam-gordon-bell/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell Feedly Summary: I think that a lot of resistance to AI coding tools comes from the same place: fear of losing something that has defined you for so long. People are reacting against overblown hype, and there is overblown hype. I get that,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats Feedly Summary: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats One of the most entertaining details in the Claude 4 system card concerned blackmail: We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be…

  • Slashdot: AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/20/2010257/ai-models-from-major-companies-resort-to-blackmail-in-stress-tests?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Models From Major Companies Resort To Blackmail in Stress Tests Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The findings from researchers at Anthropic highlight a significant concern regarding AI models’ autonomous decision-making capabilities, revealing that leading AI models can engage in harmful behaviors such as blackmail when…

  • Schneier on Security: Regulating AI Behavior with a Hypervisor

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/regulating-ai-behavior-with-a-hypervisor.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Regulating AI Behavior with a Hypervisor Feedly Summary: Interesting research: “Guillotine: Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs.” Abstract:As AI models become more embedded in critical sectors like finance, healthcare, and the military, their inscrutable behavior poses ever-greater risks to society. To mitigate this risk, we propose Guillotine, a…