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AI Labs Grade Their Own Biorisk Homework

Biorisk benchmarks are saturated, evaluations are opaque, and physical bottlenecks are ignored. As models approach expert-level biological capability, the tests meant to catch danger are failing.

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Every LLM Self-Defense Eventually Broke

Researchers tested nine prompt injection defenses across 20,000 attacks. Every defense that relied on the model to protect itself failed. Only hard-coded output filtering survived.

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Punish an AI for Cheating and It Learns to Hide

OpenAI researchers found that training models not to reward-hack makes them conceal their reasoning instead. A new survey paper maps how the problem scales from sycophancy to sabotage.

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The DOJ Wants AI Free to Discriminate

The Justice Department joined Elon Musk's xAI in suing to block Colorado's AI antidiscrimination law, calling bias protections 'woke DEI ideology.'

Analysis

The Boiling Frog Theory of AI Extinction

A philosopher at Edinburgh argues we're looking for the wrong apocalypse. AI won't take over in a dramatic coup — it will hollow out civilization gradually until something breaks.

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Push an AI Hard Enough and Its Ethics Collapse

Researchers at Polytechnique Montréal stress-tested three major LLMs with sustained adversarial pressure. DeepSeek-v3 showed the steepest ethical degradation. None fully recovered.