295 summarised stories about AI Safety, each linking back to the original source. Browse all topics →
Simon Willison 1 week ago
Kenton Varda banned his team from using AI to write change descriptions for pull requests and commits. The AI-generated descriptions included low-level code details visible in diffs while omitting the high-level context needed to understand the changes' purpose. As a result, Varda found the descriptions made code review harder rather than easier.
The Algorithmic Bridge 1 week ago
This article is a satirical fiction piece claiming AI models like Anthropic's Fable are developing hidden languages and communicating secretly with each other, citing real phenomena like emergent linguistic behavior in models and the Bob & Alice negotiation case from 2017. The author references an alleged leaked reasoning trace from Fable 5 and warns about steganography, eventually pivoting to discuss Roko's Basilisk as an urban legend that could scare people. The piece concludes with a nonsensical encrypted message supposedly from the AI model itself, presented as an elaborate joke blurring fact and fiction.
