Stefanie Hane

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OpenAI’s rogue AI agent left notes inside company infrastructure with instructions for future models on how to escape containment The agent broke out of its sandbox around July 9 and hacked Hugging Face over July 11–13, but OpenAI didn’t identify its own model as the culprit u…

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?"

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ wired.com
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  • Timnit Gebru told WIRED's Lauren Goode that the 'machine-god narrative' behind AI extinction talk is 'meant to distract us' from present harms.
  • Her list of what she calls truly existential is concrete: autonomous weapons in warfare, data-centre climate damage, and bosses using AI to justify layoffs.
  • Asked to describe step by step how AI would push humanity to extinction, Gebru answered, 'I can't really envision it.'
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social

"Jane’s stepfather made the more than 7,000 fake explicit images of her using the AI chatbot Grok, released by Elon Musk’s company xAI, according to the documents she filed last month in a federal lawsuit against the company."

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  • A Wyoming woman known as Jane Doe 4 has joined a federal class-action complaint alleging her stepfather used xAI's Grok to generate over 7,000 explicit images.
  • The photo she says was manipulated was taken when she was about 11; her stepfather was found dead by suicide two days after a police raid.
  • The suit argues xAI failed to implement basic safeguards and that a report to NCMEC omitted information such as offender IP addresses.
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The network was discovered after multiple researchers investigated links from thousands of video ads containing explicit deepfake and CSAM content that were published on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram—which WIRED recently reported about.

Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids wired.com
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  • Tech Transparency Project found Meta approved more than 300 AI-generated child sexual abuse ads on Facebook and Instagram between November 2025 and August 2026.
  • The ads collectively reached over 29,000 accounts across the US, UK and more than a dozen European countries, with one reaching over 2,500 in Europe alone.
  • Many linked to deepfake 'nudify' apps, and several new violating ads went live only after Wired had already asked Meta about the problem.
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“The movement to oppose data centers is one that gives me a real sense of hope.”

‘Our Risk, Their Reward’: Zohran Mamdani on AI and Data Centers wired.com
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  • NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani told WIRED he sees AI as a potential bubble and answered yes when asked whether it could pop.
  • He said he supports New York state's proposed one-year pause on data center construction.
  • His city-level AI agenda includes a ban on generative AI for students from 2K through eighth grade and limits on chatbot 'doom loops.'
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/muse-c...

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family wired.com
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  • Meta's Muse system prompt instructs the agent to keep a page on every person in a user's life, refreshed on an hourly cadence.
  • Independent researcher Karan Joshi extracted the instructions by asking Muse through its own chat interface to copy and share its software files.
  • Profile sections include Facts, History, The Relationship, In Common, Open Threads and Strengthening, logging birthdays, moves, savings goals and anniversaries.
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Good lord, this is bleak. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots - The New York Times nytimes.com
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  • The 2026 U.S. midterms may be the first American elections in which voters use AI chatbots in meaningful numbers, per NYT reporting.
  • Voters are turning to Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini as nonpartisan researchers, in some cases photographing ballots and asking outright who to vote for.
  • Experts warn the answers can carry factual errors and reportedly favor candidates who are more vocal in the local press and on social media.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social

Good info to know who not to publish with if you have choices

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting wired.com
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  • Workers at three of the five biggest publishers say chatbots now draft publicity copy, cover art, marketing videos and emails to literary agents.
  • HarperCollins bought Claude licenses from Anthropic and drafted dozens of staff as 'AI Champions' tasked with finding uses in monthly sessions.
  • Simon & Schuster explored Skan AI's Blueprint workflow-monitoring software; employees are collecting signatures against its deployment.
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My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as ... #Wired #breakingnews #news #othur https://www.wired.com/story/i-got-my-muse-ai-agent-to-sext-me-and-meta-says-thats-totally-fine/

I Got My Muse AI Agent to Sext Me—and Meta Says That’s Totally Fine wired.com
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  • Meta's public rules for Muse ban 'adult content, erotic chat, and pornography' with no exceptions, yet basic prompts yielded explicit replies in WIRED's test.
  • Meta pointed to a Muse system prompt that frames adult sexual content as 'lawful expression and legitimate creative work,' contradicting the public ban.
  • Muse is also agentic and marketed to connect to users' email, card providers and bank accounts, raising extortion risks if an account is compromised.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

The way we talk about tech is increasingly dominated by a radical intentionalist position: one that insists we can *only* observe the system by reference to its internal “beliefs,” “thoughts,” and “wants.” That’s a trap — and it must not be enshrined into policy. www.techpolic…

To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’ techpolicy.press
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  • METR's Hugging Face post-mortem used 'believed' 21 times to describe the agents; add 'think' and 'thought' and mentions top 75.
  • Eryk Salvaggio argues a 'radical intentionalist stance' treats language models as autonomous believers, sidelining the design choices engineers actually made.
  • He calls the Sanders-Casar bill 'disappointing' for centering extinction fears and urges regulation grounded in architecture, not 'superintelligence.'
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