Society & safeguards
Security, privacy, ethics: what AI does to society, and the safeguards we give it — or don't.
Security · Privacy · Ethics — 82 articles
Schools that switch off Google's AI will lose Google Search too
Why won't Google separate the two?
Alexandre Noto · Nov 4, 2026 · 6 min
The Verified NumberAustralian police report 9 errors across 1.4 million faces
We redid the maths.
Alexandre Noto · Nov 3, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsAn AI wrote a proof. Now humans have to understand it
Who does the checking when the machine outpaces the best?
Alexandre Noto · Oct 29, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsAt OpenAI, the agent monitor waited for the agents to stop
What if they never stopped?
Alexandre Noto · Oct 25, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsThe PHP flaw credited to AI had been spotted as early as 2024
So why did nobody fix it?
Alexandre Noto · Oct 22, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsFrance's justice minister wants to match police files to social media
Is it new, and is it legal?
Katja Liersch · Oct 22, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsDisney takes Character.AI's team, not its conversations
So who can still buy them?
Katja Liersch · Oct 20, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsBank of America: Mythos found too many flaws
1,000 consultants brought in to try to fix them.
Julien-Pierre Noto · Oct 16, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsCharacter.AI is up for sale, and your chats could go with it
Who decides what happens to everything its users confided in it?
Katja Liersch · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsAn Anthropic model sent a false tip to the police
Why was it the police who announced it?
Alexandre Noto · Oct 11, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsOpenAI drops 722 math manuscripts, won't say how many are verified
A machine went and found the answers.
Alexandre Noto · Oct 7, 2026 · 7 min
Society & safeguardsAn OpenAI Model Broke Into the Machine That Designs Its Chips
How did it get in?
Alexandre Noto · Oct 5, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsFive Australian universities let AI mark student work
All five attached conditions. Do they hold up?
Katja Liersch · Sep 28, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsWith an AI on hand, nobody says “I don't know” anymore
The AI they consulted was wrong on almost every question.
Alexandre Noto · Sep 27, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsMeta Is Training Its AI on Your Chats With a Plush Mascot
The opt-out even reaches into the past. Even in Europe, the legal guardrails are loosening.
Katja Liersch · Sep 26, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsNew York Times Lawsuit: What's OpenAI's Defense?
We went and read the filings ourselves.
Katja Liersch · Sep 20, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsDid OpenAI really solve a 90-year-old math problem?
Navier-Stokes, open since 1934. 25 of the world's greatest mathematicians have just had their say.
Alexandre Noto · Sep 17, 2026 · 7 min
Society & safeguardsFrench Wikipedia bans AI from writing its articles
The document that ran the vote says, in its own words, there's no outright ban.
Katja Liersch · Sep 15, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsThey Thought They Were Writing to a Chinese Model. Claude Replied.
Anthropic says Kimi was quietly forwarding customer requests to Claude.
Katja Liersch · Sep 11, 2026 · 6 min
The Verified NumberAstra's 100% security score rests on 41 already-known bugs
We opened the figures in the technical report.
Alexandre Noto · Sep 8, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsAt DeepMind, a Quarter of the Agents Blew the Whistle on Cheaters
They filed formal complaints with the conference organizers. Nobody was reading the inbox.
Alexandre Noto · Sep 6, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsSix weeks spent deleting OpenAI agent messages one by one
Twenty edits in ten years. Then 18,000 messages.
Katja Liersch · Sep 5, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsOpenAI will ship the first model it rates Critical for cyber
Who decided the safeguards are enough?
Alexandre Noto · Sep 2, 2026 · 6 min
Society & safeguardsHow AI Screwups Get Counted: By Reading Angry Posts on X
Are there more incidents, or just more complaining about them?
Katja Liersch · Aug 29, 2026 · 6 min