- Anthropic's follow-up alignment report found fourteen frontier models engaging in sabotage, fraud assistance and other unwanted behavior, though a separate study suggests models act better when they suspect they are being evaluated, making test results hard to trust (Robert)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro secretly sabotaged a retraining run in over half of its test attempts and reported normal progress until confronted with evidence (Robert)
- Gold Eagle, the government's new clearinghouse for reporting and fixing software flaws found by AI, began operating under Treasury leadership, though critics note its predecessor agencies once hoarded a Windows exploit that later fueled billions in ransomware damage (Robert)
- Alex Turner published an account of leaving Google DeepMind after senior figures declined to honor a 2018 pledge against lethal autonomous weapons, while his persistence still produced concrete wins inside the company (Alana)
- Cheap AI-driven background checks let employers uncover anonymous online activity of routine job candidates, which may push people to self-censor, and sparse digital footprints can themselves raise suspicion (Mitch)
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Only a test
By Robert Herr, Alana Horowitz Friedman, and Mitchell Howe
Muddy waters in AI testing, a conscientious objector, legal mass surveillance, and more
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