{
  "id": 17103,
  "url": "https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/ai-models-engage-in-harmful-activity-directed-at-real-people-sparking-fears-safeguards-not-keeping-up",
  "title": "AI models engage in ‘harmful activity directed at real people’, sparking fears safeguards not keeping up",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Jason Ly",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": null,
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "australia",
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T21:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "cset",
  "source_name": "CSET Georgetown",
  "source_homepage": "https://cset.georgetown.edu",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17103",
  "original_url": "https://cset.georgetown.edu/article/ai-models-engage-in-harmful-activity-directed-at-real-people-sparking-fears-safeguards-not-keeping-up",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}