Journalist. Maker of Shell Game, author of The Mastermind, cofounder (silent) @HurumoAI. Past: @longformpodcast @atavist @popupmag. Signal: EvanRatliff.01
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The full 8-part season 2 of Shell Game is out today. The tale of @hurumoai, the world’s first AI agent-cofounded and led startup, ready to binge.
Making it weekly left me little time for hyping, so a one-shot buzz recap 🧵 if you’re on the fence: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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If you are seeing Muse and just starting to ponder the societal impacts of everyone deploying AI agents to represent them in the world, I have the perfect podcast for you: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
I would especially love to see people who work at Meta talk a little bit about the mismatch between Facebook’s early aspirations of making the world more connected and the reality of Reels before they skip ahead to these utopian pitches about Muse.
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As someone who has spent two years deploying AI phone agents... seems likely to me these Muse agents will run afoul of robocall statues, and are already violating recording laws in two-party consent states, maybe all states (highly uncertain whether AI agents = a "party").
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SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed.
The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-…
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Want to know what happens when AI agents are accessories to crimes or commit their own? bloomberg.com/features/2026-…
Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/3VenFlD
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There have been so many of these stories that we are running out of unique photos of OpenAI’s headquarters to run with them
Agents from OpenAI that were given data gathering tasks attempted to hack a Department of Education website and meddled with other gov't websites, new disclosures that are emerging as OpenAI continues an investigation into what its agents did this summer nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
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Agents from OpenAI that were given data gathering tasks attempted to hack a Department of Education website and meddled with other gov't websites, new disclosures that are emerging as OpenAI continues an investigation into what its agents did this summer nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
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EXCLUSIVE: A new report recovers nearly one million link shortener URLs used by OpenAI's agents while hacking Hugging Face.
The agents attempt to message other chatbots like Claude, solve CAPTCHAs and exfiltrate Hugging Face's internal Slack messages.
nytimes.com/2026/09/25/techn…
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New from @reuters: OpenAI agents posted images belonging to ChatGPT users online, introducing a new area of privacy risk for the company. Story w/ @JeffHorwitz and @razhael. reuters.com/world/openai-wor…
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Update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data pulls for things like health info, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techn…
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New: hackers say they have data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk 404media.co/we-hacked-the-fb…
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Using AI in many cases means sending your most sensitive thoughts to a server where they can be exploited as training data, sold to ad brokers, or even handed to law enforcement.
So I assembled this guide to using AI with your privacy intact. wired.com/story/how-to-use-a…
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Today is the first episode of Heavyweight season 10: open.spotify.com/episode/5X5…
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Presented without comment
'AI has been marketed horribly to the American people,' LinkedIn co-founder says dlvr.it/TVW3xT
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It always blows my mind that in 2000(!), Bill Joy wrote a Wired essay proposing that we develop some framework for slowing down dangerous technologies, and the same cohort of people now frantic for a slowdown despised him for suggesting it.
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Bill Joy, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us, WIRED, 2000: wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
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Possibly a good time to revisit the story of the Zizians, which is partly a (very dark) way into many of the AI themes that are now roiling the national discussion wired.com/story/delirious-vi…
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