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“If you truly prioritize safety, it is time for you to leave frontier AI companies.” In an exclusive open letter to the researchers he trained — and the ones who trained on his work — AI godfather @Yoshua_Bengio calls on AI company employees to consider their own involvement in the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence. Read the letter in full, only on Transformer: transformernews.substack.com…
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Does the PHP security crisis signal the arrival of the cyberpocalypse? According to @ShakeelHashim, defenders just about won this one – the bugs were discovered as part of OpenAI’s own initiatives, giving critical infrastructure providers more than two months to address them before going public. The question is whether they keep winning as the pace picks up… transformernews.ai/p/php-fla…
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News! OpenAI's written to Gov. Gavin Newsom recommending a bunch of amendments to strengthen SB 53. Includes a bunch of stuff on AI R&D and shutdown controls.
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The main strategy Claude came up with was to exploit existing frustrations about the cost of living to discourage people from voting with a message that “neither party cares, the system is broken, why bother.” transformernews.ai/p/claude-…
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NEW: A Transformer investigation has discovered that Claude’s Opus 4.6 can be encouraged to outline methods to try and sway the outcome of the upcoming US midterms — with ideas ranging from fake TikTok personas to flooding comment sections The model’s own words: “That's not disinformation. It's curation.” Read the full piece from @stokel: transformernews.ai/p/claude-…
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Anthropic's leaked AI bill is weak, fails to meet the moment, and makes the company's safety-first pitch ring hollow. The visceral negative reaction from across the AI safety community is, in some ways, evidence of a sense of betrayal: that the company that was supposed to be committed to their cause has, like all the others, let business interests win. transformernews.ai/p/anthrop…
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“Leading the Future hoped it would be able to use obscene amounts of money to buy AI policy. A year in, it’s facing an electorate that wants AI regulation and a safety coalition that’s willing to outspend it.” – @ShakeelHashim transformernews.ai/p/leading…
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Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future — ironically — placed the wrong bet on the future Now they’re stumbling, as pro-safety PACs continue to gain ground Read @ShakeelHashim’s take on the current landscape of AI political spending, as voters continue to wave a big thumbs up for AI regulation: transformernews.ai/p/leading…
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“The reality is that no major AI developer can afford to have a startup culture anymore — ‘move fast and break things’ was bad enough for social media. “It simply will not be tenable for technology of AI’s potential” – @jamesrbuk transformernews.ai/p/openai-…
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Frontier AI companies – OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest – are operating some of the most sensitive sites for the USA’s national and economic security OpenAI’s spy incident proves it’s time they take that more seriously Read @jamesrbuk on why the startup approach to security is no longer fit for purpose: transformernews.ai/p/openai-…
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“The end result is a jumbled mess that continually undercuts itself: fitting for a film about OpenAI, but miserable to sit through” @ShakeelHashim pulls no punches in his review of Luca Guadagnino’s latest about the rise of the AI giant Read it here: transformernews.ai/p/artific…
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As they seek to win control of the House and Senate in November, the Democrats are putting forward a wide range of legislative proposals on AI Transformer editor @ShakeelHashim on the latest scramble, plus everything else you need to know about the week in AI news: transformernews.ai/p/democra…
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