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An Anthropic staffer who led a team researching AI safety departed the company on 9 February, darkly warning both of a world “in peril” and the difficulty in being able to let “our values govern our actions” without any elaboration in a public resignation letter that also suggested the company had set its values aside.

Anthropic safety researcher Mrinank Sharma's resignation letter garnered 1 million views by the 9^th. 

Mrinank Sharma, who had led Anthropic’s safeguards research team since its la

Major artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude could be willing to engage in extreme behaviors including blackmail, corporate espionage, and even letting people die to avoid being shut down.  Those were the findings of a recent study from San Francisco AI firm Anthropic.

In the study, Anthropic stress-tested 16 leading AI models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky behaviors from AI gents.  In the study, AI

The underground market for large illicit language models is lucrative, said academic researchers who called for better safeguards against artificial intelligence misuse.  Academics at the Indiana University Bloomington[1] identified 212 malicious LLMs on underground marketplaces from April through September 2024.  The financial benefit for the threat actor behind one of them, WormGPT, is calculated at US$28,000 over two months, underscoring the allure for harmful agents to break artificial intel

Back in 1975, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow wrote and sang a song, I Write the Songs.  Forty-eight years later, Barry might be out of a job with AI now writing songs.  Universal Music https://www.universalmusic.com sued AI startup Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com  over “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics,” per a filing in a Tennessee federal court in October 2023.  One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about the lyr