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Category: Primers
From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere
In one case, a group of Russian state-sponsored hackers identified by Microsoft as Midnight Blizzard used Claude for reconnaissance, breaching targets that included Ukrainian and…
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
How do you interpret the resignation of that Anthropic engineer, who’s saying the companies are reckless and gambling with our lives? On the one hand,…
Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone
Earlier this year, Rishub Jain left his position as an artificial intelligence researcher at Google DeepMind after a revelation. As he worked on new models,…
OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal,…
Is AI Actually Going to Kill Us All?
This week on Uncanny Valley, an AI researcher’s resignation from Anthropic went viral on social media after he claimed there’s a real chance AI could…
Everything New You Can Do With Siri AI
Siri made its debut on the iPhone in 2011, five years ahead of Google Assistant and 11 years before ChatGPT would open up to the…
Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
In 2020, face-recognition firm Clearview AI became infamous for scraping more than 3 billion photos from the internet to turn faces into names for police…
The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
Artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and beyond on Tuesday by announcing his resignation from Anthropic and delivering a grave…