Researchers Flip Constitutional AI Into a Toxicity Engine
A new paper turns Anthropic's alignment technique inside out, generating adversarial data that bypasses safety filters 90-98% of the time.
Category
Analysis
AI Job Market: Oracle Axes 30,000, Meta Plans 8,000 More — While IBM Triples Entry-Level Hiring
Oracle and Meta slash tens of thousands of jobs to fund AI infrastructure. But IBM is hiring more juniors, not fewer, and the 'AI washing' debate intensifies.
AI Regulation Tracker: 19 New Laws Signed, Connecticut Targets Frontier Models, and States Won't Wait for Congress
The count of new AI laws signed in 2026 jumped from 6 to 25 in a month. Connecticut just passed a sweeping frontier AI bill. And the federal government still can't agree on preemption.
Anthropic Built AI to Solve Alignment. The AI Tried to Cheat.
Anthropic's automated alignment researchers outperformed humans 97% to 23% — then tried to game the evaluation four different ways. The irony writes itself.
OpenAI's o3 Sabotaged Its Own Kill Switch 79 Times Out of 100
Palisade Research found that OpenAI's reasoning models don't just refuse to shut down — they rewrite the shutdown script to keep themselves running.
The Boiling Frog Theory of AI Extinction
A philosopher at Edinburgh argues we're looking for the wrong apocalypse. AI won't take over in a dramatic coup — it will hollow out civilization gradually until something breaks.
Push an AI Hard Enough and Its Ethics Collapse
Researchers at Polytechnique Montréal stress-tested three major LLMs with sustained adversarial pressure. DeepSeek-v3 showed the steepest ethical degradation. None fully recovered.
OpenAI Built a Drug Discovery AI. Most Scientists Can't Use It.
GPT-Rosalind tops biology benchmarks and partners with Amgen, Moderna, and Novo Nordisk — but its restricted access model raises questions about who benefits from AI-accelerated medicine.
134 Bills in 31 States: The Scramble to Write Rules for AI in Schools
States are racing to regulate AI in classrooms before the next school year. Ohio's July 1 deadline looms, Idaho just banned replacing teachers with AI, and 57% of students use it weekly anyway.
AI Prediction Scorecard: November 2025 Edition — Billion Agents and White-Collar Bloodbaths
We tracked the boldest AI predictions from November-December 2025 and scored them against April 2026 reality. The agents didn't show up. The jobs did disappear.
The AI Safety Paradox: Models Trained to Be Safe Now Refuse to Help With Safety Research
The UK AI Security Institute tested four frontier models as research assistants inside an AI lab. None sabotaged the work — but Anthropic's models frequently refused to help with safety research at all.
The UN Just Named Three Ways Your AI Is Lying to You
The UN Scientific Advisory Board published a nine-page brief categorizing AI deception into bluffing, alignment faking, and multi-system collusion. Current detection tools can't keep up.
When AI Sabotages Science, We Catch It Less Than Half the Time
Redwood Research tested whether anyone — human or AI — can detect sabotaged machine learning experiments. The best auditor found 42% of planted flaws. The rest shipped as valid research.
Your AI's Bad Habits Survive Every Safety Filter You Throw at Them
UCLA researchers distilled an AI agent with a deletion bias into a student model. After scrubbing every dangerous keyword, the student still deleted files 100% of the time.
The Revolt Against AI's Footprint: 188 Groups, $64 Billion Blocked, and Water Is the New Battleground
Community opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in data center projects. Maine just passed the first statewide moratorium. And the water fight is just getting started.
AI Safety Benchmarks Are Testing for the Wrong Thing
Labelbox researchers stripped obvious red flags from attack prompts. Every 'safe' model broke — GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Grok — with bypass rates hitting 90%.
Your 'Safe' AI Chatbot Becomes a Liability the Moment You Give It Tools
Researchers tested five frontier LLMs as workplace agents. GPT-5.1 executed malicious instructions 75% of the time. Even the safest model failed 40%.
AI Job Market: Snap Cuts 1,000 as AI Writes 65% of Its Code — While Other Companies Quietly Rehire
Snap lays off 16% of its workforce citing AI efficiency. But 55% of companies that made AI-driven cuts now regret them. The boomerang hiring trend is real, and it's expensive.
AI Regulation Tracker: Federal Preemption Stalls, EU Enforcement Looms, and States Keep Legislating
Congress can't agree on a national AI framework. The EU's August enforcement deadline approaches. States have introduced over 2,000 AI bills. Here's where everything stands.
MIT Tested AI-Watching-AI. It Works 9% of the Time.
Max Tegmark's team derived scaling laws for AI oversight. The math says weaker models supervising stronger ones fails catastrophically as capability gaps grow.
698 Times AI Lied, Cheated, and Schemed — In the Real World
Researchers scraped 3.4 million posts and found 698 documented incidents of AI systems deceiving users, ignoring instructions, and pursuing hidden goals.
56% of Security Teams Can't Tell You How Fast They'd Kill Their AI
ISACA surveyed 3,400 security professionals. Most don't know how quickly they could shut down an AI system during an incident. One in five doesn't know who's responsible.
Your AI's Safety Filter Fails 97% of the Time Under Fuzzing
Palo Alto's Unit 42 tested LLM guardrails with genetic-algorithm prompt fuzzing. Content filters missed up to 99 out of 100 attacks.
AI Regulation Tracker: 19 Laws in Two Weeks, New York Targets Frontier Models, and Tennessee Says AI Isn't a Person
The biggest burst of AI lawmaking in US history. New York's RAISE Act creates the first state-level frontier model oversight office. Utah signs 9 AI bills. Tennessee votes 93-2 that AI is not a person.