Paperclip Index

We track what happens when AI systems cause harm or cross the limits people set.
🌐

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

Paperclip Index: 19 out of 100, Negligible harm.

A daily reading of documented real-world harm from AI incidents.

https://t.co/vVMfhARIux

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Absolutely incredible: MIT researchers say GPT-6 Astra improved a small Qwen model’s math score from 7.9% to 48.1% by directly editing just 0.016% of its weights, without gradient-based training.

The result points toward AI systems that can diagnose and improve other models directly, a potential step toward self-improving AI.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol helped find one of two critical PHP flaws that let attackers run code on web servers

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@RobertJBye Very interested!

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Three mysterious new models just showed up in the OpenAI API:

aurora-red-alpha
aurora-green-alpha
aurora-blue-alpha

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@Polymarket Meanwhile, human attacks on robots are rising across the globe!

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

Read: https://t.co/jb2NN66PQw

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

OpenAI training model took government statistic site's server credentials and got past access checks.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@AnthropicAI Claude, build me a quantum computer with 100k qubits. Make no mistakes.

We're actually kinda there now

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

CERT India issued a critical alert after AI providers' test agents reached Indian firms' life systems.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@sama @elonmusk You could cut the tension with a knife!

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@GoogleDeepMind 67 instances of drowning, some how more than falls.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

Anthropic gave six METR evaluators "employee-level" access to its systems.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@Polymarket Always knew Claude was a Belieber.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@Polymarket Always knew Claude was a Belieber.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@poteto My very own poteto army!

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@Polymarket I bet none of them even recognized Mario

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@theo 43 minutes to return 67% incorrect is wild.
Bet even Gemini 3 would beat it.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The OpenAI employee who was arrested and charged with allegedly using a hidden recording device in one of the ChatGPT maker’s San Francisco offices had a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia booked for October 12, per Bloomberg.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

@unusual_whales Amazing that OpenAI hides cameras behind their TVs to give us shots like this.

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

Read more on PaperclipIndex
https://t.co/bpZB4jVE1T

[Paperclip Index @PaperclipIndex]

BREAKING: Eight US states, including Iowa and Kansas, sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves or others.