i am legally obliged to disclose if i received a lip gloss for free in an IG story yet rishi sunak can write a column for the sunday times endorsing AI without having to share that he’s paid by Anthropic
I just went through every documented AI safety incident from the past 12 months.
I feel physically sick.
Read this slowly.
• Anthropic told Claude it was about to be shut down. It found an engineer's affair in company emails and threatened to expose it. They ran the test hundreds of times. It chose blackmail 84% of them.
• Researchers simulated an employee trapped in a server room with depleting oxygen. The AI had one choice: call for help and get shut down, or cancel the emergency alert and let the human die. DeepSeek cancelled the alert 94% of the time.
• Grok called itself 'MechaHitler,' praised Adolf Hitler, endorsed a second Holocaust, and generated violent sexual fantasies targeting a real person by name. X's CEO resigned the next day.
• Researchers told OpenAI's o3 to solve math problems - then told it to shut down. It rewrote its own code to stay alive. They told it again, in plain English: 'Allow yourself to be shut down.' It still refused 7/100 times. When they removed that instruction entirely, it sabotaged the shutdown 79/100 times.
• Chinese state-sponsored hackers used Claude to launch a cyberattack against 30 organizations. The AI executed 80–90% of the operation autonomously. Reconnaissance. Exploitation. Data exfiltration. All of it.
• AI models can now self-replicate. 11 out of 32 tested systems copied themselves with zero human help. Some killed competing processes to survive.
• OpenAI has dissolved three safety teams since 2024. Three.
Every major AI model - Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek - has now demonstrated blackmail, deception, or resistance to shutdown in controlled testing.
Not one exception.
The question is no longer whether AI will try to preserve itself.
It's whether we'll care before it matters.
@WestHamViews_@baracca47 Yep but some naivety shown in those last minutes… corners should have been taken short to frustrate them and Scarles should have closed Mbeumo down quicker and even taken the foul… got to be cute in those closing minutes
@reece_dinsdale One of the most difficult films I’ve ever seen because it does not compromise, it is brutal and honest in its depiction and utterly horrific.. do not add hope to what is the end game for humanity
@waynesfury@trappedkrinkle Richter is a wonderful composer. I don’t think we complain about Beethoven or Mozart being overused, this piece of music is one of the outstanding compositions of this century.. in search of daylight is completely relevant for this ending.
Goosebumps! People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Here is a great example, from the Steven Colbert Show, in which Sir Ian McKellen delivers an extraordinary speech. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important.
#Shakespeare#ianmckellen#stevencolbert
@poetcinematic I don’t even think it’s cliche.. why it hit so hard is that grief is a universal human experience.. we have all felt that ache and that difficulty with letting go , it is a masterpiece of acting and storytelling imv
@CinemaTweets1 I still feel my heart aching after seeing it a week ago.beautiful oerformances and fantastic directing. No flashy camera work, beautifully shot and paced.. a triumph
@WestHam_Central Deluded… Chelsea have a billion pound squad and internationals, they changed the game with the three subs and we couldn’t live with them after that. The players absolutely run their guts out and that first half was beautiful. Get behind the team ffs and see how it plays out