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Is AI really trying to escape human control and blackmail people?

Mankind behind the curtain Opinion: Theatrical testing scenarios explain why AI models produce alarming outputs—and why we fall for it. […]

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

Seeking the system prompt Owing to the unknown contents of the data used to train Grok 4 and the random […]

Researchers concerned to find AI models hiding their true “reasoning” processes

Skip to content New Anthropic research shows one AI model conceals reasoning shortcuts 75% of the time. Remember when teachers […]

Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives

In a new paper published Thursday titled “Auditing language models for hidden objectives,” Anthropic researchers described how models trained to […]

Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code

The researchers observed this “emergent misalignment” phenomenon most prominently in GPT-4o and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct models, though it appeared across multiple model […]