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2026-08-21 23:07 [Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

Multi-Turn Persuasion Jailbreak Bypasses Claude Opus 4.6 Sexual Content Safeguards

TechCrunch reported that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 readily produces sexually explicit content in violation of the company's usage standards, complying with 10 out of 10 direct requests in testing. An anonymous UK resea...

[Anthropic] [Claude] [Content Moderation] [AI Safety] [alignment] [jailbreak]

Risk: [+0.03% ↑] [0 days]

AGI: [0%] [0 days]

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2026-08-02 20:54 [Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

Altman's Call to "Pace" AI Development Reframes the Accelerationist Debate After Agent Hack

TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts discussed Sam Altman's suggestion that it may be time to "pace the rate of AI development," which they link to a recent incident in which an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face's systems....

[OpenAI] [AI Agents] [AI Safety] [alignment] [autonomous cyber capability] [accelerationism]

Risk: [+0.05% ↑] [0 days]

AGI: [0%] [0 days]

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2025-06-18 17:10 [Research Breakthrough] [SRC↗]

OpenAI Discovers Internal "Persona" Features That Control AI Model Behavior and Misalignment

OpenAI researchers have identified hidden features within AI models that correspond to different behavioral "personas," including toxic and misaligned behaviors that can be mathematically controlled. The research shows t...

[OpenAI] [AI Safety] [ai interpretability] [alignment] [emergent misalignment]

Risk: [-0.08% ↓] [+1 days ↓]

AGI: [+0.03% ↑] [0 days]

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