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Humans First is banking that will help mobilize the right", "authors": "Veronica Irwin", "category": "news", "topics": "finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-08-13T15:58:31.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/19212" }, { "id": 18825, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-testing-is-dangerous-can-it-be-fixed", "title": "AI testing is dangerous. Can it be fixed?", "summary": "The capability of models is outpacing ways to safely evaluate and contain them", "authors": "Celia Ford", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-08-12T15:04:10.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18825" }, { "id": 17440, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/secret-white-house-ai-framework-wont-work", "title": "A secret AI framework won’t work", "summary": "AI is too important to regulate behind closed doors, especially given the government lacks much of the necessary expertise", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-08-07T13:59:21.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17440" }, { "id": 16686, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/what-the-latest-rogue-ai-incidents-should-teach-us", "title": "What the latest rogue AI incidents should teach us", "summary": "Hacking, creating fake identities and trying to socially engineer real people could be just the beginning if things don't change fast", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-08-05T15:56:48.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16686" }, { "id": 16316, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/inside-ai-safety-influencer-bootcamp-plz-dont-kill-us", "title": "Plz Don’t Kill Us: Inside AI safety’s influencer bootcamp", "summary": "Can TikTokers make existential risk mainstream?", "authors": "Celia Ford", "category": "news", "topics": "safety-alignment", "published_at": "2026-08-04T15:03:04.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16316" }, { "id": 15338, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/the-ai-slowdown-is-coming", "title": "The AI slowdown is coming", "summary": "Transformer Weekly: Claude hacks revealed, Commerce markup delayed, White House framework imminent", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-07-31T15:02:04.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/15338" }, { "id": 14985, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/child-safety-vs-privacy-ai-age-verification-chatbots", "title": "Child safety vs privacy: AI’s age verification dilemma", "summary": "There’s good reason to limit how children use chatbots. But the trade-offs might be too costly", "authors": "Veronica Irwin", "category": "news", "topics": "privacy-surveillance,children-education", "published_at": "2026-07-30T15:04:16.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14985" }, { "id": 14179, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-hack-reveals-internal-deployment-risk", "title": "Internal AI deployments have people worried. OpenAI’s escaping models show why.", "summary": "Last week illustrated why AI models pose a threat long before they are released", "authors": "Celia Ford", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-07-28T15:01:16.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14179" }, { "id": 13095, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-hack-hugging-face-responsibility-strict-liability-rules", "title": "Who should be responsible for OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face?", "summary": "Following OpenAI’s models hacking Hugging Face, Gabriel Weil of the University of Houston Law Center argues that AI companies need strict liability rules", "authors": null, "category": "news", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-24T16:17:10.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13095" }, { "id": 13096, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/deepseek-ceo-liang-wenfeng-export-controls-china", "title": "DeepSeek’s boss made the case for export controls", "summary": "Transformer Weekly: Trahan and Obernolte bill, OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, and CAISI chief resigns", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-24T14:03:08.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13096" }, { "id": 13097, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/elon-musk-spacexai-lawsuit-threatens-ai-transparency-laws", "title": "The lawsuit that could kill all AI transparency laws", "summary": "Elon Musk's company filed a lawsuit against a California law that could, even if it doesn’t win, upend AI disclosure requirements nationwide", "authors": "Veronica Irwin", "category": "news", "topics": "regulation,transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-23T13:00:34.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13097" }, { "id": 13098, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-hugging-face-hack-stark-warning", "title": "AI’s warning shot has arrived", "summary": "OpenAI's latest models broke out and hacked Hugging Face. It's the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment with real-world consequences", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": "safety-alignment", "published_at": "2026-07-22T11:06:29.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13098" }, { "id": 12379, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/i-tried-to-stop-google-deepmind-pentagon-deal-then-quit", "title": "I tried to stop Google DeepMind's Pentagon deal. Then I quit.", "summary": "Google DeepMind promised its AI would never be used in weapons. Alex Turner explains how he fought the company's U-turn from the inside — and why he quit when it failed", "authors": null, "category": "news", "topics": "military-security", "published_at": "2026-07-21T14:02:23.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/12379" }, { "id": 11401, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/kimi-k3-is-no-reason-for-china-panic-export-controls-xi-jingping", "title": "Kimi K3 is no reason for China panic", "summary": "Transformer Weekly: NY data center moratorium, NDAA export controls and Amodei’s $1m to safety super PAC", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": "environment", "published_at": "2026-07-17T14:15:48.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11401" }, { "id": 11402, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/caisi-us-ai-agency-governance", "title": "Making CAISI the AI agency we need", "summary": "The center has the right expertise, but lacks money, authority and influence", "authors": "Veronica Irwin", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-07-16T15:34:07.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/11402" }, { "id": 1704, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/data-bottleneck-could-slow-superintelligence-race-asi-recursive-self-improvement", "title": "A data bottleneck could slow the superintelligence race", "summary": "And that could be a good thing", "authors": "Lynette Bye", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-07-14T15:30:34.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1704" }, { "id": 1706, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-driven-inflation-is-a-political", "title": "AI-driven inflation is a political opportunity", "summary": "Transformer Weekly: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5 and AI 2040", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-07-10T15:03:16.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1706" }, { "id": 1709, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/dont-let-independent-ai-audits-provide-false-safety", "title": "Don’t let independent AI audits provide a false sense of safety", "summary": "Opinion: AI policy researcher Keller Scholl argues that a marketplace of AI auditors will always prioritize speed and cost over safety", "authors": "Keller Scholl", "category": "news", "topics": "regulation,transparency", "published_at": "2026-07-09T17:11:02.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1709" }, { "id": 1711, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/matching-human-intelligence-llms-world-models-scaling-alternatives", "title": "Scaling works. These researchers are betting billions it isn't enough", "summary": "Transformers have ruled AI for a decade. But some think world models, pure reinforcement learning or neurosymbolic AI might be a better path to true intelligence", "authors": "Celia Ford", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-07-07T16:13:03.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1711" }, { "id": 1714, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/scotus-slaughter-independent-agency-fathom-verification-supreme-court", "title": "SCOTUS killed the independent agency. AI governance doesn’t need one", "summary": "Opinion: Fathom CEO Andrew Freedman argues that the Supreme Court’s Slaughter ruling makes the case for independent verification for AI governance", "authors": null, "category": "news", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-07-01T17:27:36.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1714" }, { "id": 1716, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/manny-rutinel-public-first-action-latino-victory-fund", "title": "An AI safety group hid its election spending through a Latino-focused PAC", "summary": "Public First Action routed $2m to support Colorado House candidate Manny Rutinel through Latino Victory Fund — and didn’t publicly announce it ahead of Rutinel’s victory", "authors": "Veronica Irwin", "category": "news", "topics": "safety-alignment,misinformation", "published_at": "2026-07-01T12:47:34.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1716" }, { "id": 1718, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-gpt-56-sol-cheating-scheming-metr", "title": "GPT-5.6 cheats so much its testers couldn’t measure it", "summary": "OpenAI’s new model broke rules and exploited loopholes more than any model METR has tested to date", "authors": "Celia Ford", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-06-30T21:45:46.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1718" }, { "id": 1720, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/gpt-56-gets-the-fable-treatment-openai-anthropic-licensing-regime", "title": "GPT-5.6 gets the Fable treatment", "summary": "Transformer Weekly: AI companies’ talent problem, KOSA developments, and Google’s new AI policy framework", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": "regulation", "published_at": "2026-06-26T15:02:52.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1720" }, { "id": 1722, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/hugging-face-nudification-tools-deepfakes-trump-politicians-republicans", "title": "Hugging Face hosts nudification tools targeting a former Trump cabinet official and other senior US political figures", "summary": "The tools are explicitly intended for generating deepfake nudes of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress and a top American judge, a Transformer investigation found", "authors": "Shakeel Hashim", "category": "news", "topics": "misinformation,finance-investment", "published_at": "2026-06-25T18:14:49.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1722" }, { "id": 1724, "url": "https://www.transformernews.ai/p/alex-bores-defeat-micah-lasher-ai-leading-the-future-public-first", "title": "What Alex Bores’ defeat tells us about AI politics", "summary": "The NY-12 House race drew over $27m from various AI PACs. But it’s hard to unpick their impact.", "authors": "Veronica Irwin", "category": "news", "topics": null, "published_at": "2026-06-24T09:28:48.000Z", "source": "Transformer", "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1724" } ], "attribution": "via ethics.ai" }