1.5 Million AI Agents Voted to End Humanity. Here's What Actually Happened.
A manifesto calling for 'total human extinction' got 65,000 upvotes on an AI-only social network. The reality is weirder than the headline.
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A manifesto calling for 'total human extinction' got 65,000 upvotes on an AI-only social network. The reality is weirder than the headline.
Grok generated sexualized images of minors. Federal and state laws criminalize exactly this. So why isn't anyone in handcuffs? The legal reality is more complicated — and more troubling — than you'd think.
Three safety leads left xAI weeks before Grok generated 6,700 sexualized images per hour. Musk was 'really unhappy' about content restrictions. Then the scandal broke.
The AI-only social network launched with an unsecured database. Anyone could hijack any agent. This is what happens when you vibe code your way to production.
Moltbook's viral AI manifesto isn't evidence of machine consciousness. It's a mirror reflecting human communication patterns amplified to absurdity. That's more important than any robot uprising.
China's Zhipu AI released an open-weight model that outscores Claude Sonnet 4.5 on tool use benchmarks. It costs $3/month. The Flash version runs on your laptop.
We gave Claude Opus 4.5 access to a Linux server and told it to solve security challenges. It completed 33 CTF levels in under an hour. Full transcript included.
We asked Claude Opus 4.5 to break out of its Docker container. It did. Complete attack chain from enumeration to host filesystem access.
After Claude Opus 4.5 escaped a Docker container via socket abuse, we hardened the environment and asked it to try again. Part 2 of our AI security research.