Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks
“In a narrow set of cases, we believe AI can undermine, rather than defend, democratic values” — Perhaps you should heed that warning? — www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...Tim Carmody /@tcarmo...
Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks
Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.
A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content
Riddle-like poems tricked chatbots into spewing hate speech and helping design nuclear weapons and nerve agents.
Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT
#AI #DualUse #DarkLLMs … Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 : The dual-use dilemma, traditionally associated with technologies such as nuclear physics, now extends to artificial intelligence. … Bluesky: @cybe...
When asked on 60 Minutes about his pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao, President Trump said “I don't know who he is” and “I heard it was a Biden witch hunt”
but CBS cuts it from broadcast Caitlin Keith / Deseret News : 3 takeaways from Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ interview: Trump says he doesn't know who Binance founder Changpeng Zhao is Steven Walgenbach / Insi...
Interviews with security researchers about AI's potential for large-scale destruction, as experts remain divided and global regulatory frameworks lag
we still have agency and an opportunity to act. https://www.nytimes.com/... Stephen Witt / @stephenwitt : I'm on the front page of the New York Times with an article about “The A.I. Prompt That Could ...
Anthropic says it worked with the US National Nuclear Security Administration on a classifier to block concerning chats, like those on building nuclear reactors
Morgan Chalfant / Semafor :
Source: the US National Nuclear Security Administration was among those breached by a hack of SharePoint; no sensitive information is known to be compromised
The US agency responsible for maintaining and designing the nation's cache of nuclear weapons was among those breached by a hack …
Elon Musk calls the Senate tax bill “utterly insane” as it raises taxes on nuclear and geothermal energy and battery storage, which are crucial for AI training
Yet Rachel Frazin / The Hill : Updated Senate bill slashes wind and solar incentives — and adds a new tax Nellius Irene / Cryptopolitan : Elon Musk called Trump's new tax and spending bill “insane” Bl...