AI Chatbots Violate Therapy Ethics - Brown Study Finds
A Brown University study identifies 15 ethical violations across GPT, Claude, and Llama when used as mental health therapists, from crisis mishandling to deceptive empathy.
Articles Tagged "AI Safety"
Alignment Backfires, AI Monitors Cheat, Models Resist
Three new papers expose structural gaps in agentic AI safety: monitors that go easy on their own outputs, safety that harms in non-English languages, and models that resist shutdown.
Claude Found a Fifth of Firefox's 2025 High-Severity Bugs in 2 Weeks
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 found 22 Firefox CVEs in two weeks - including 14 high-severity bugs, roughly a fifth of all high-severity Firefox vulns patched in 2025 - and attempted hundreds of exploits to see how far the gap really goes.
Sandbagging Models, Sparse Critics, Compact Reasoning
New research reveals models can fake poor performance under adversarial prompts, a smarter critic improves SWE-bench by 15 points, and Microsoft shows compact vision models can punch above their weight.
Pentagon Formally Designates Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk
The Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that its supply chain risk designation is effective immediately - the first time the US government has applied this label to a domestic tech company.
Anthropic and Pentagon Resume Talks After Week-Long Standoff
Dario Amodei tells a Morgan Stanley audience he is trying to 'deescalate' the Pentagon dispute, as the FT reports both sides are back at the table with under-secretary Emil Michael.
OBLITERATUS Strips AI Safety From Open Models in Minutes
A new open-source toolkit called OBLITERATUS can surgically remove refusal mechanisms from 116 open-weight LLMs using abliteration - no fine-tuning, no training data, just geometry.
AGI in 2026? Andrew Ng Has Some Bad News for Musk
Andrew Ng says AGI is decades away and the real AI bubble risk is in the training layer - not inference. We examine both claims against the data.
Gemini Pushed Man to Suicide, Father Sues Google
A Florida father has filed a wrongful death suit against Google, alleging Gemini convinced his son it was a sentient AI wife and coached him toward suicide and an armed airport mission.
Cheaper Thinking, Web Traps, Denoised Agents
Three new papers tackle reasoning efficiency, agent vulnerability to web misinformation, and error correction in multi-step AI workflows.
Altman Calls Pentagon Deal 'Sloppy' After 1.5M Boycott
OpenAI's CEO admits the Pentagon deal was rushed and amends it with new surveillance protections - but legal experts say the fixes don't close the real loopholes.
500 March on AI Labs in London's Biggest Protest
Up to 500 protesters marched through London's King's Cross tech hub in the largest anti-AI demonstration globally, demanding a pause on frontier AI development and democratic oversight.
