AI Ethics

Three Fired OpenAI Researchers Say They Were Punished for Speaking Up on Safety

Three former OpenAI safety researchers say they were fired for being outspoken about safety or working with outside evaluators, while OpenAI denies this and says they violated policies on handling sensit

Scott Aaronson Says AI Labs Are Quietly Testing Models Against Encryption

Computer scientist Scott Aaronson says sources tell him several AI labs have begun privately testing whether their newest models can break important cryptographic protocols, an omission he flagged after

AI Slop Just Broke Googles Open Source Bug Bounty Program

Google has paused its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program until at least Q1 2027, citing a "significant rise" in automated AI-generated vulnerability reports, most of them invalid, joining

Meta Walmart and Stripe Just Wrote the Rulebook for Shopping Bots

Meta, Sierra, Walmart, Stripe, Shopify and others have announced the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard letting AI agents authenticate with businesses and complete tasks on a customer's behalf, ar

Why Chatbots Are Becoming This Elections Unofficial Voter Guide

As midterm voting gets underway, NPR found voters increasingly turning to ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude to compare candidates, research down-ballot races that thin local news coverage leaves them in the dar

Hackers Posed as an Anthropic Executive to Target AI Policy Experts

Proofpoint says China-aligned group TA419 impersonated a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House OSTP official in credential-phishing campaigns targeting US AI policy researchers, though no An

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