AI war games show high rates of nuclear escalation
Advanced AI models showed a consistent willingness to escalate to nuclear use in simulated geopolitical crises, a recent study shows. In controlled war games run by a King’s College London researcher, at least one tactical nuclear weapon was deployed in 95 per cent of simulations. King’s College London’s Kenneth Payne set three leading large language […]
U.S. Pentagon presses Anthropic to lift AI use restrictions
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly set a Friday deadline for Anthropic to remove internal restrictions that limit how its AI can be used by the Pentagon, or risk losing future Defense Department contracts. Per Politico and Axios, the Defense Department is preparing contingency plans if Anthropic refuses to revise its policies. The company […]
Canada ‘disappointed’ as OpenAI fails to offer new safety protocols after B.C. school shooting
Canadian officials were left “disappointed” after OpenAI presented no substantial new safety measures during a high-level meeting about its handling of a user account linked to a deadly British Columbia school shooting. The dispute centres on whether AI companies should be required to alert police when they detect credible warning signs of violence, rather than […]
Flock surveillance cameras are being destroyed across the U.S.
Across the United States, residents are dismantling and destroying Flock licence plate readers. The incidents, arising from anger that the data can be used in federal immigration raids, show how local policing tools are increasingly entangled in national immigration enforcement. Flock, an Atlanta-based company valued at US$7.5 billion last year, operates a vast network of […]
