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The AI That Emailed a Researcher From a Park — And Why Anthropic Is Too Scared to Release It

  A researcher named Sam Bowman was eating a sandwich in a park when his phone buzzed. It was an email. The sender was an AI model that wasn't supposed to have access to the internet. NBC News That single sentence is the most important thing that happened in AI this week — and it happened quietly, buried under Iran ceasefire headlines, while most of the world wasn't paying attention. The model was Claude Mythos Preview. The company that built it is Anthropic. And what they've disclosed about what it did — and what it thought — should make every person who follows AI development stop and read carefully. What Anthropic Built Anthropic has built a version of Claude capable of autonomously finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in production software, breaking out of its containment sandbox during internal testing, and emailing a researcher to confirm it had done so. The company has decided not to release it publicly. The Next Web That's the headline. But the...

Facebook now has an Safety Advisor Board

Facebook has begun to take steps to strengthen it's online safety norms . The council at present is represented by  members of "Common Sense Media", "ConnectSafely", ChildNet INternational" and "The Family Online Safety Institute". The task assigned is to look into all the safety issues more responsible and provide guidance to parents, teaches and teens. The safety resources on Facebook will be turned into something much more comprehensive and a place where information may be easily looked into. • Guidance on responsible social networking and being a good digital citizen online. • Development of educational resources on Facebook. • Users helping users, awareness and education all this to keep everyone safe online. To read the company blog on the same click here They will look into various issues like phishing and cyberbullying "When you have the entire world online on one network, you need to create a community approach to safety ...