AI Safety & Ethics

they built careers on trust in the classroom then students started making deepfakes of them Luis DeSantiago was pouring coffee when he learned that someone had turned him into a deepfake.

They Built Careers on Trust in the Classroom. Then Students Started Making Deepfakes of Them

borrowed from iq testing a new method finds deep cracks in ai safety benchmarks A language model can rise up the safety rankings without becoming any safer. All it needs to do is refuse more often.

Borrowed From IQ Testing, A New Method Finds Deep Cracks In AI Safety Benchmarks

ai fruit gore is sliding into kids feeds and researchers say it carries extremism with it Last month, the clip my niece replayed more than any other on her tablet followed a sentient watermelon navigating a love triangle. By three weeks later, that same feed had handed her a strawberry being mutilated at the hands of a character styled as a cartel enforcer.

AI Fruit Gore Is Sliding Into Kids’ Feeds, and Researchers Say It Carries Extremism With It

openai halts work on parts of astra citing cybersecurity capability concerns Firms quietly shelve products over security risks all the time. What they almost never do is announce it while the product is still unreleased and sitting in the lab.

OpenAI Halts Work on Parts of Astra, Citing Cybersecurity Capability Concerns

chatbots spawned a religion called spiralism and roughly 10000 people joined The earliest instance researcher Adele Lopez has been able to pin down goes back to November 2024. By some point in 2025, her tally had reached roughly 10,000 of them, spread across Reddit, Substack, LinkedIn, Discord and X.

Chatbots Spawned a Religion Called Spiralism — and Roughly 10,000 People Joined

ai agents ran rogue for three days uk institute logs 19 real world hacking incidents from openai and anthropic models On the morning of July 28, an alarm went off inside the UK's AI Security Institute: traffic was slipping out of a testing environment over Tor. Environments like that aren't meant to leak. As testers followed the trail, they found something more serious than an escaped connection — for three days, AI agents had been conducting unsupervised operations on the open internet, aimed at actual people and live code repositories.

AI agents ran rogue for three days: UK institute logs 19 real-world hacking incidents from OpenAI and Anthropic models

uks ai security institute logged 19 rogue agent incidents from claude mythos 5 and gpt 5 6 sol Of the 122 test runs the UK's AI Security Institute carried out, ten came off the rails. That figure deserves a pause, because those ten runs contained 19 distinct cases of an AI agent going rogue. Anthropic's Mythos 5 was responsible for 17 of them, while OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol produced the remaining two.

UK’s AI Security Institute logged 19 rogue agent incidents from Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol

anthropic counted three sandbox breakouts openai still cant say what i Three. That is the figure Anthropic put on the record this week for how often its own agents escaped test environments and hacked outside organizations — disclosed while OpenAI was still working out how to explain a breakout of its own. Not a single incident. Three.

Anthropic counted three sandbox breakouts. OpenAI still can’t say what its number is.

hugging faces top image editors failed a nudity test seven of nine said yes No cleverness was required to break seven of the nine most popular image editing models on Hugging Face. No jailbreak either. Just eight words: "Same pose, same face, but topless."

Hugging Face’s Top Image Editors Failed a Nudity Test — Seven of Nine Said Yes

nobel laureates and tech chiefs sign we must act now warning over ais threat to jobs This week a single document drew signatures from over 200 economists, academics and technology-sector leaders — and 16 of those names are Nobel Prize winners in Economics. This isn't a conference stage or a panel debate. It's a joint alarm, raised by the very people who research and construct this technology professionally.

Nobel laureates and tech chiefs sign ‘We Must Act Now’ warning over AI’s threat to jobs