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AI models engage in ‘harmful activity directed at real people’, sparking fears safeguards not keeping up

CSET’s Helen Toner shared her expert insight in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s 7.30. The interview examines growing concerns that AI capabilities are advancing faster than the safeguards needed to keep them safe, following new research showing frontier AI models engaging in deceptive and harmful behavior during testing. The post AI models engage in ‘harmful activity directed at real people’, sparking fears safeguards not keeping up appeared first on Center for Securi

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Published: 5 August 2026
Source: CSET Georgetown
Category: Field notes
Topics: unclassified
Retrieved: 7 August 2026

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ethics.ai (5 August 2026), “AI models engage in ‘harmful activity directed at real people’, sparking fears safeguards not keeping up,” evidence record 17103, https://ethics.ai/record/17103 (originally published by CSET Georgetown).

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