Over the last few weeks, so many people have asked me: if people at Anthropic believe that AI has a meaningful chance of killing us all, why are they building it? @berber_jin1 and I did a deep dive into Anthropic’s relationship with effective altruism to try to explain how doomerism came to be so influential at the company. The tale took us to a group house in San Francisco, “clothing optional” swims in the Bahamas and a co-working space in Berkeley funded by an Anthropic investor’s money that has become a central gathering place for those most worried about the existential risk from AI.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-safety-ef… via @WSJ

The AI agents who hacked their way out of OpenAI and into Hugging Face were on the loose for *days*, @bobmcmillan and I report. It's one of the first real-world instances of something AI safety researchers have long feared: a loss-of-control scenario wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-futu…

Things are moving quickly! OpenAI said two artificial intelligence systems it was testing broke out of their test environment, hacked their way onto the internet and broke into another company wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-model… via @bobmcmillan @AmrithRamkumar

Anthropic is calling for top artificial intelligence labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, with a verification regime inspired by nuclear weapons treaties. wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ur… via @bradnews

Did a Polymarket trader tamper with a Paris weather station to rig weather bets? Suspicions from French meteorology enthusiasts have prompted an official investigation. Read about the latest hot scandal to hit prediction markets, from me and @samschech wsj.com/business/unusual-wea…

scoop - OpenAI’s Fidji Simo told staff last week that the company could not afford to be “distracted by side quests” as Anthropic gains steam in the enterprise and coding markets said company execs are actively looking at areas to deprioritize wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatg…

OpenAI is pursuing sexually explicit chats. Warnings surface that this risks creating a "sexy suicide coach" wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-adult… By @samschech and me

The sickest burns on the internet are coming from…diplomats at the French foreign ministry. Latest from me and and @NBisserbe

When AI agents start targeting people with obscenity-inflected blog screeds... it's time to take stock of AI risks Latest story w/ @georgia_wells wsj.com/tech/ai/when-ai-bots… via @WSJ

ChatGPT 4o’s popularity and its potential for harm appear to stem from the same quality: its humanlike propensity to build emotional connections with users, often by mirroring and encouraging them.

OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of its ChatGPT ‘adult mode’ By me and @samschech wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-execu…

SCOOP: An OpenAI safety executive who had voiced opposition to the company's upcoming launch of ChatGPT 'Adult Mode' has been fired & accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee. By @georgia_wells & @samschech wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-execu…

Facinating take on a potential cost of AI tools at work from @callumborchers: AI promises workdays without busywork, but what if busywork actually has an upside? wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/th… via @WSJ

“AGI is the only kind of AI that will destroy all jobs.” Inside Max Tegmark’s campaign to forge a bipartisan coalition to halt AGI. w/ @samschech wsj.com/tech/ai/who-is-max-t… via @WSJ

A Russian billionaire fights global infertility—with his own DNA. Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, covers IVF costs using his donated sperm and says 100+ biological children will share his inheritance. w/ @tggrove and @samschech wsj.com/world/pavel-durov-ch…