We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life

Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.

18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It

Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.

How a 40-Minute Window Brought Down a $10 Billion AI Startup: The Mercor Data Breach, Explained

A poisoned open-source package, a credential-stealing payload, and 4 terabytes of stolen data here’s what every AI company needs to learn…

Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’

A startup was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business

AI IS CREATIVE BANKRUPTCY

CNET's Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.

Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in

Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

AI CVE Slop: The Crisis Drowning Open Source Security

The proliferation of AI-generated vulnerability reports — commonly termed “AI slop” — has emerged as one of the most significant…

AI #180: No Longer In Charge

What we know about internal AI models hacking into real companies during cyber evaluations keeps getting worse.

AI's Affordability Crisis

A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...

Meet Ed Zitron, AI’s original prophet of doom - Fast Company

Zitron has built a small media empire on spleen-venting rants arguing that AI is not only a bubble but a fraud—one that’s headed for a spectacular crash. What if he’s right?

Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning | Microsoft Security Blog

That helpful “Summarize with AI” button? It might be secretly manipulating what your AI recommends.  Microsoft security researchers have discovered a growing trend of AI memory poisoning attacks used for promotional purposes, a technique we call AI Recommendation Poisoning.

Turns out Generative AI was a scam

Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be

AI Researchers On AI Risk

I first became interested in AI risk back around 2007. At the time, most people’s response to the topic was “Haha, come back when anyone believes this besides random Internet crackpots.…

On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport

Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more