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I know more than AI

I deleted a working function today. It ran. It was clean. It was better written than the version in my head. I deleted it because it solved the problem the way that problem is usually solved, and I am…

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Anthropic blocks AI weapon plots after ‘catastrophic’ risk warning

Anthropic has blocked attempts to use its AI models to help develop biological and conventional weapons, days after its own researchers sounded the alarm over the risks posed by increasingly powerful AI. The Claude-maker uncovered five cases in which researchers used its technology “in ways that could support biological weapons…

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Anthropic says China, Iran used its AI to aid spying

Anthropic said it shut down multiple cases of state-sponsored surveillance operations that used its artificial intelligence (AI) models, and warned that governments and state-aligned actors are increasingly using AI to spy on ethnic minorities and dissidents.

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