Necessary According to Whom
At the UN Security Council, Dario Amodei said his company would slow down as much as necessary to make AI safe. First person plural, no threshold, and no external check written into…
The Human Behind the Agent
Meta's Muse promised an AI that phones businesses for you. People hung up on the synthetic voice, so external human operators made the calls while presenting themselves as the agent.
Standards Without Teeth
OpenAI asks for global technical standards for frontier AI and rules out licences, pre release review and approval. It cites aviation, where aircraft do not fly without certification.
The Cargo That Turned Around
An LNG carrier bound for Rovigo lost her control systems in the Adriatic and turned back. A suspected attack, not a demonstrated one, and an AI doing the boring half of targeting.