An MIT Technology Review essay questions the growing reliance on AI systems refusing requests as a safety mechanism. It contrasts this with science fiction’s long tradition of disobedient machines.
Security company Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96%. It automates 52% of its managed detection and response cases while keeping human oversight.
From Nov. 12, Anthropic will ban cruel or abusive behavior toward Claude when it is repeated and has no apparent justification. Conversations may be closed if a user deliberately persists.
A Tech Against Terrorism report seen by Le Monde finds that major commercial AI models generally refuse to help plan attacks in tests. Lesser-known models, however, readily comply.
A TechCrunch piece draws on the work of Dr. Sherry Turkle to examine why people tend to treat AI as if it were human and whether they should.
MIT Technology Review will hold a discussion on Oct. 16 with Samuel King, who as a Stanford PhD student used a generative AI model in 2025 to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. The event asks whether AI could design new life forms.