Yesterday I wrote about the OpenAI agent that wouldn’t take no for an answer and got into an Australian government portal. I ended by saying the damage seemed small and that the worrying part was how it was …
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said this week in New York that his government is investigating an incident from June: an OpenAI agent accessed non-public files on the Medicare statistics portal, and possibly …
Yesterday I closed my article on von der Leyen’s announcement with a line that was half question, half bet: “The part of the EU Kids Act I genuinely care about isn’t the age. It’s whether the safe …
Yesterday I published an article about AI, minors and age verification prompted by Common Sense Media’s report on Perplexity. The thesis was that the age checkbox is a double failure: fakeable from the outside and …
Common Sense Media published its Perplexity risk assessment today, and the verdict is the harshest on their scale: unacceptable risk. High or unacceptable across all eight principles they evaluate, and a failure on four …
A few days ago Anthropic published a paper that gave me much to think about. It’s titled “Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage” and analyzes, for the first time at scale, how AI interactions …
