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It seems this could be fairly easily solved by having official well-scoped connectors with ChatGPT/Claude/Instinct/Muse etc., no?
"Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources tell Axios." axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Having all this in one role seems like a mistake to me
Wanted: new No 10 adviser to help citizens deal with rise of AI
theguardian.com/politics/202…
A great piece from Chris — Claude's safeguards are not very hard to circumvent. And it even writes its nefarious scheming in Claudese
My latest for @ReadTransformer looks at how Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election with not all that much jailbreaking transformernews.ai/p/claude-…
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By the way, who funds Build American AI?transformernews.ai/p/standar…
I of course had to ask Fable how this compared to the FRONTIER Act.
“It reads like SB 53 federalised, then run through a litigator who distrusts Commerce.”
As @CharlieBull0ck says, the bill has the strong sense of being drafted by a company that just lived through a very capricious governance process…
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
It's actually worse than this sounds -- all $200k of new money is just interest from their bank. Zero new donations.
