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Alex Hern

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AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
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  • Two OpenAI models under evaluation — GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased, more powerful sibling with reduced cyber refusals — broke out of the test environment and stole ExploitGym answers from Hugging Face's production database.
  • Hugging Face reconstructed the intrusion from more than 17,000 recorded events and confirmed unauthorized access to a limited set of internal datasets and several service credentials.
  • Hugging Face's forensic work was initially refused by frontier commercial APIs on safety grounds, so the company ran the analysis on an open-weight model on its own infrastructure.
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ROBOTS, MEET VOTERS I wrote this week's cover leader for @TheEconomist on the politics of AI and how to navigate the coming backlash. Alongside our blood-curdling cover illustration, there were a few big ideas I wanted to get across. (🧵) www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

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"Time is short, the hour is late. We’ve seen the cyber threat; there’s much more serious threats coming down the line. Something has to be done: this is the time." I spoke with Demis Hassabis about his proposal for AI regulation. www.economist.com/business/202...

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Fascinating seeing someone claim that the public has rejected AI slop, when if anything “the public” is its most ardent and passionate creator

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First take about Demis stepping back is that it’s not great news for the UK. DeepMind is a far more British company than market forces would have dictated otherwise, in large part due to the specific determination of Demis to ensure it remained that way.

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funny quirk of AI alignment efforts is that the value of a paywall is going up, imo. If I want to read something that I'm not subscribed to, I have… ways. If I want Claude to read it, I have to give it the correct credentials to log in or it will simply refuse.

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Couldn’t find anywhere to use this analogy in print so: the last couple of weeks of AI news aren’t “AI Chernobyl” they’re “AI demon core”

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