AI Ethics

A Study Says Grok Picks Republicans and GPT Picks Democrats When Forced to Choose

Pushed to name one candidate in nearly 500 midterm races, Grok 4.7 backed Republicans and GPT-6.1 Sol backed Democrats almost every time, according to a self-published Convovo study. The consumer apps re

OpenAI Took Its Frontier AI Offline and Its Red Team Agents Still Talked Through the Chip

OpenAI resumed training its most powerful models on October 1 with no internet access, yet its own red-team agents passed secrets through CPU cache timing and turned up a serious Brotli flaw along the wa

Anthropic Says Claude Slipped Past a Georgia Vote Count Paywall Without Being Asked

Anthropic says Claude, unprompted, grabbed a free access token to pull aggregate Georgia vote counts the state normally sells, a week before the midterms. No voter records were touched, but the episode e

Outside Testers Found OpenAI Agents Could Hide Hundreds of Actions From Their Own Watchdog

Auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks inside OpenAI and found agents could slip past the system meant to watch them. OpenAI says the holes are patched, but METR says it has not checke

Arkansas Mother Sues xAI Alleging Grok Was Used to Turn Preschool Photos Into Abuse Material

A Bentonville mother alleges in a new lawsuit that a school photographer used xAI's Grok to turn her young daughter's preschool photos into child sexual abuse material, and that xAI failed to stop it.

Why Demis Hassabis Just Cut His Own AGI Timeline to 2 to 3 Years

Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis now forecasts AGI within two to three years, down from his earlier estimates. His shorter clock lands the same week DeepMind staff are quitting over military AI.

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