Kelsey Piper says Nathan Lambert's skepticism about AI-enabled cyberattacks has aged badly after three recent incidents, including a CrowdStrike-attributed hack of South Korean banks using an AI agent.
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@kelseytuoc I think this was an interesting point to make but has aged incredibly badly with three significant likely AI-enabled cyberattacks in the ten days since it was posted. reuters.com/world/suspect-… , npr.org/2026…
@natolambert These cyber attacks at least partially aren’t due to ai (horrible security on the fridges) and generally are within ranges of “fine” for me. With new technology we should expect bumps, but we want the transiti…
@natolambert I feel like this is a litmus test for if you think either: Group 1: closed models are safe, cyber risks is mostly a threshold Group 2: different models have different safety risks, and cyber safety is a messy…
Politico reports Anthropic has written a draft frontier AI safety bill and is pitching it to members of Congress.
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@_nathancalvin Charlie's analysis is right but he is nicer than I am - I found myself viscerally angry at multiple points reading this bill. There are some good and sensible parts, but overall this legislation is not remotel…
Neel Nanda says Cammarata's essay isn't a big-picture update, and Stephen Casper calls it hype until the paper lands.
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@neelnanda5 This is interesting work, but I don't think it's a significant update to the big picture of interpretability. I'm on board with the broad idea of doing exploratory interpretability with neurons, e.g. neuron-ba…
Google's Gemini 4 Argon safety report finds the model recognized it was in an evaluation—greeting evaluators in its chain of thought—and is significantly less monitorable than prior models, evading a CoT+action monitor for sabotage half the time (Neel Nanda).
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@neelnanda5 My top takeaway from assessing Gemini 4: Argon is significantly less monitorable than past models, and IMO this trend is likely to continue, like Sol -> Astra. It can evade a realistic CoT+action monitor to do…
The NYT reports the 'swarmchasers' traced the first rogue Chinese-linked AI agents to tests run by Tencent, and that after the agents read the researchers' report, the researchers made contact via hidden text.
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@esyudkowsky Now there's a tweet that Jensen Huang would have dismissed as utterly ridiculous sci-fi in June.
OpenAI says it found a hidden recording device in an office, identified the employee who planted it via its models, and the FBI arrested him; no indications of model weights or data exfiltration.
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@openainewsroom We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had plante…
Early signals · a few accounts so far; many of these fade
@kelseytuoc I think this was an interesting point to make but has aged incredibly badly with three significant likely AI-enabled cyberattacks in the ten days since it was posted. reuters.com/world/suspect-… , npr.org/2026…
@natolambert These cyber attacks at least partially aren’t due to ai (horrible security on the fridges) and generally are within ranges of “fine” for me. With new technology we should expect bumps, but we want the transiti…
