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Is AI scheming against humanity? Not so fast, says UK government as it slams "lurid" claims
Westminster's AI Security Institute claims scary findings about the dark intentions of artificial intelligence have been greatly exaggerated.
UK
From planting orchards at nuclear bases to supporting pollinators, find out about the Atomic Weapons Establishment's slightly incongruous ESG drive.
Security
Imposter used AI to imitate the voice of the United States Secretary of State, highlighting a growing risk all organisations need to be aware of.
UK
New "Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" system will monitor the British Channel to identify illegal migrant vessels.
Existential Risk
AI firm expands Safety Systems team with engineers responsible for "identifying, tracking, and preparing for risks related to frontier AI models."
Security
National Crime Agency seizes three male suspects as well as a 20-year-old woman during operations in London and the West Midlands.
Controversial and ever-so-slightly creepy new Android feature is enabled by default and gives Google's AI access to apps including WhatsApp.
UK
Leftists and right-wingers have predictably diverging outlooks on the social impact of artificial intelligence, study finds.
Security
Airline contacted by shadowy threat actor following incident feared to have exposed millions of people's data.
LLMs
Large language models are vulnerable to relatively simple tricks which fool them into producing nonsensical or even harmful outputs.
Tech | Science | Ideas
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Shadowy "United States of Dread" group seizes website of activist who claimed to have published the names of illegal marketplace customers.
LLMs have a troubling tendency to serve up fake links, creating a major new fraud opportunity for enterprising threat actors.
Mysterious outage feared to be an $500,000 exit scam or yet another sensational seizure from international law enforcement agencies.
Scammers are buying up dodgy websites on underground marketplaces to manipulate search rankings and lure victims onto malicious pages.
Future versions of ChatGPT could let "people with minimal expertise" spin up deadly agents with potentially devastating consequences.
"The industry should be on high alert, especially for social engineering schemes which target their help desks and call centres."
Doughnut giant admits that more than 160,000 customers were affected by a security incident in November 2024.
Crown Prosecution Service set to spend millions of pounds of taxpayers' money on GenAI, despite hallucination risks and human job loss fears.
"Workplace technology shouldn't be about control. When implemented transparently, it can enhance the employee experience."
Researchers compare the permissiveness of Claude, Gemini, Deepseek and GPT-4o to discover which model generates the most graphic content.
Crooks are taking advantage of the billionaires' squabble to defraud victims, run phishing campaigns and spin up dodgy memecoins.