The Who's Who of AI

“This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. www.…”

“One man's wish could be another country's legal obligation. “This should not have happened,” says veteran security engineer and researcher Niels Provos. “I wish the frontier labs spent as much time on teaching their models to write secure infrastructure as …”

“We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/s…”

“While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) w…”

“Meta built a face recognition system called NameTag, had put it on millions of phones, and appears to be thinking about enabling it. A prominent Meta exec recently talked at length about the system on a podcast. So does NameTag exist? According to @wired.co…”

“NEW: Meta's VP of comms claimed the company's NameTag feature "doesn't exist" in response to recent @wired.com reporting about it. Then Meta's CTO described it in detail on a podcast. Here's my attempt to explain 🫠: wired.com/story/heres-the-truth-about-whe…”

“Fascinating to see OpenAI employees knife fight with one of their own execs. "Tech billionaires, such as Greg Brockman, funded the super PAC Leading the Future to keep AI unregulated. I was very happy to learn that Guardrails Alliance is pushing back [...] …”