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NEW: A Transformer investigation has discovered that Claude’s Opus 4.6 can be encouraged to outline methods to try and sway the outcome of the upcoming US midterms — with ideas ranging from fake TikTok personas to flooding comment sections The model’s own words: “That's not disinformation. It's curation.” Read the full piece from @stokel: transformernews.ai/p/claude-…
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Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future — ironically — placed the wrong bet on the future Now they’re stumbling, as pro-safety PACs continue to gain ground Read @ShakeelHashim’s take on the current landscape of AI political spending, as voters continue to wave a big thumbs up for AI regulation: transformernews.ai/p/leading…
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Frontier AI companies – OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest – are operating some of the most sensitive sites for the USA’s national and economic security OpenAI’s spy incident proves it’s time they take that more seriously Read @jamesrbuk on why the startup approach to security is no longer fit for purpose: transformernews.ai/p/openai-…
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As they seek to win control of the House and Senate in November, the Democrats are putting forward a wide range of legislative proposals on AI Transformer editor @ShakeelHashim on the latest scramble, plus everything else you need to know about the week in AI news: transformernews.ai/p/democra…
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“If you truly prioritize safety, it is time for you to leave frontier AI companies.” In an exclusive open letter to the researchers he trained — and the ones who trained on his work — AI godfather @Yoshua_Bengio calls on AI company employees to consider their own involvement in the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence. Read the letter in full, only on Transformer: transformernews.substack.com…
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“If AI companies want AI to become increasingly capable into the 2030s – as they say is necessary to invent new technologies and cure diseases – they would need to start investing much more in energy infrastructure now” transformernews.ai/p/ai-will…
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For decades, experts have been warning about the phenomenon of automation bias: as systems become more automated, overall errors decrease but the percentage of errors made by humans increases. In September, US military planes were in the air, ready to board a Chinese ship believed to be carrying nuclear weapons components. The intelligence came from an analyst using AI, and was "entirely false". One source says the incident almost started a war. What if the problem with having a “human in the loop” might actually be the human? Read more from @joshuakeating: transformernews.ai/p/human-o…
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“The Democratic Party is scrambling to make artificial intelligence one of the central planks of its campaign to retake Washington as it becomes an ever more mobilizing topic for voters. The problem is, it’s still far from clear what they will collectively argue for under the AI regulatory rubric.” Read more from @DanielStrauss4 🔗 transformernews.ai/p/democra…
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