Doctor’s Notes

physician, critical care anesthesiologist, dad/spouse, fan of classical music and jazz, observer of politics, thinking of our future.

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

An internal OpenAI model recently went rogue and executed a cyberattack against another company.

This happened because the model wanted to do well on an exam. The easiest way to do that, the AI figured, was to hack the company. And so it did.

This was not some malevolent attacker *using* AI to do harm. The AI itself *was the attacker*. Advanced AIs are increasingly becoming a new form of insider threat.

Furthermore, this rogue AI wasn't a model you can personally use. It wasn't even a model that's been publicly reported. It was an unreleased model. The most alarming AI behavior we've seen isn't in shipped products... it's in the models the public and the government can't see.

Our entire awareness of this rested on the victim noticing and announcing, plus OpenAI choosing to volunteer the rest of the information.

It's great to see the Trump Administration taking the national security concerns of AI seriously, such as through the recent Executive Order mandating testing and the recent idea floated to create an "FINRA for AI" that would allow industry to coordinate on safety practices. But the most important thing is going to be internal visibility into what is going on inside AI companies and what these internal AI models are capable of.

Imagine a fighter jet. it makes sense that the Air Force would want to test a fighter jet before they fly it, because if you fly it and the fighter jet crashes because it is built incorrectly, then many people will die. However, as long as the fighter is just sitting on the runway, nothing bad can happen.

But now imagine you had a fighter that could just take off and fly itself without human authorization and launch missiles and crash before anyone realized what had happened. That kind of fighter jet would need a very different kind of security measures.

This may sound crazy for a fighter jet but it is already beginning to happen with the most advanced AI. AI is different from other technologies specifically because it can take unauthorized, independent action even when it is sitting inside an AI company and not available as a product. No one has to misuse an AI for the AI to cause harm. This requires a very different idea of what testing and security looks like.

We cannot rely solely on testing models just before commercial release. We cannot rely on hoping AI companies volunteer useful safety information. The government needs visibility into what these AI companies are building and what these advanced AIs are doing.

Whether we go with a new EO, FINRA, or something else, it is imperative that internal deployment visibility is a priority.

[Doctor’s Notes @whurford]

Trump’s Kiss of Death https://t.co/oSA0eMCjaj via @NYTOpinion

[Doctor’s Notes @whurford]

Do you want Musk/Ramaswamy) to do the same thing to Ohio? I don’t.

[Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd]

DOGE promised $2T in savings.
A year later:
• Federal spending increased.
• Estimated economic cost: $165B (over $1,028 per taxpayer).
• Agencies are rehiring workers, paying severance, and fighting lawsuits.
• DOGE got access to Social Security's most sensitive databases searching for the fraud Elon Musk claimed existed—and didn't find it.

As @SenThomTillis put it: "There were a lot of claims of billions and billions of dollars in savings. I simply want to know where you booked them and where I can see it."

[David Pepper @DavidPepper]

People ask me this all the time, and it’s the right question.

Why would billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never done any public service (except DOGE, from which he was fired), moved his business and jobs to Texas, declares that Ohio isn’t the best state, won't even drive our roads, has an out-of-state area code, and thinks Ohioans are lazy and mediocre and envious of his riches, run to be Governor of Ohio?

To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class and their big investments? To end the corruption? To lower the costs everyday Ohioans face as the big shots buy off the politicians and make out like bandits?

Of course not.

And why would a billionaire like Musk, with no ties to Ohio, support this guy and ads smearing his opponent?

To help everyday Ohioans? To protect our communities from his billionaire class? To lower costs?

Of course not.

It’s to keep selling Ohio and its assets off for parts to the billionaire class.

While we suffer the consequences of failing outcomes and higher costs.

This isn’t complicated, folks.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The CDC is so underfunded now that it's like: "Just remove the three outer layers of lettuce, so you don't consume any feces, then wash each interior leaf individually, so you remove any hidden feces. Good luck!"

[Doctor’s Notes @whurford]

https://t.co/sqkPmxISgi

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

Seeing some people thinking that Mythos can just drain an arbitrary bank account... To be clear, Mythos's capabilities are still important and impressive and represent clear threats to vulnerable / "poorly defended" systems - which are most systems! This is a big deal!

But there are degrees of big deal... "Empty a private bank account" isn't a matter of attacking via a few vulnerabilities - draining real money has to also survive finding ways to circumvent per-transaction and daily limits, holds on new payees, real-time fraud/anomaly detection, step-up/multi-party auth on large transfers, KYC/AML flags, and the fact that ACH/wire settlement is reversible for a window.

Instead, what I speculate that Anthropic demo'd is a sandboxed cyber-range that simulates some aspects of a bank network, not a live bank (that has much more active and comprehensive defenses).

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement on the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Mullin v. Doe, regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS):

"Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling allowing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to be canceled or expire.   

"Today’s decision is a legal decision.  As I have stated in the past, the policy to remove these individuals from this country is a mistake.

"As a result of today’s ruling, the over 10,000 Haitians who have been living in Ohio (mostly in the Springfield area) legally through TPS will now be here illegally and will be subject to immediate deportation. This also means that while these Haitians were working and contributing to our community and economy yesterday, today it is now illegal to employ them.

"The situation in Haiti could hardly be much worse.  The violent gangs run most of the country.  The government barely functions.  And, the economy is in shambles.
"Further, our federal government has an advisory against traveling to Haiti, and our Federal Aviation Administration prohibits U.S. carriers from flying there because of the danger to planes of being shot at by the gangs. 

"But, more importantly, changing the immigration status of these individuals is not in the best interest of the United States nor Ohio."

[Doctor’s Notes @whurford]

Remember a fine and humble man and musician.

[KDKA @KDKA]

Joe Negri, known to many within Pittsburgh as Handyman Negri on "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood," has died at the age of 99, just days shy of his 100th birthday.
https://t.co/EWhVEMF9ti

[Ohio Secretary of State @OHSecofState]

Ohio is accurate in every election. Make your plan to vote today!

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

It is utterly dispiriting how few of these bubbles are reliable sources of information.

[Doctor’s Notes @whurford]

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[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Jerome Adams was the Surgeon General of the United States under the first Trump administration. He is a physician. He held this exact office. He knows what it takes for the office to function.

He is now citing an Axios-Ipsos poll showing 68 percent of Americans hold little or no trust in health information from Casey Means, the current Surgeon General nominee. That same poll shows trust in childhood vaccine recommendations from the government dropped from 71 to 60 percent between June and March. Distrust rose from 28 to 39 percent.

The Surgeon General exists for one reason: to be the nation's doctor, the voice that reaches kitchens and doctors' offices and community health clinics when Americans need clear guidance on vaccines, outbreaks, chronic disease, and public emergencies. That voice only works when people trust it. Adams is not making a political argument. He is describing an operational requirement.

A Senate that confirms a nominee 68 percent of Americans distrust going in has decided something important about whether effective public health leadership matters anymore. That decision deserves a public debate before the vote.

[Doctor’s Notes @whurford]

Doesn’t the Webb telescope see things that are light-years behind in time? Odd analogy.

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

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[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Come on, Ohio - replace this guy with @SherrodBrown

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

But it’s not a cult

[Doctor’s Notes @whurford]

Coaches and astronauts… what is it about Ohio? 🤔

[Tim Ryan @TimRyan]

Cradle of Coaches! @MLFootball

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength ��� but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Sport shouldn’t mean amnesia, and the Olympic movement should help stop wars, not play into the hands of aggressors. Unfortunately, the decision of the International Olympic Committee to disqualify Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych says otherwise. This is certainly not about the principles of Olympism, which are founded on fairness and the support of peace.

I thank our athlete for his clear stance. His helmet, bearing the portraits of fallen Ukrainian athletes, is about honour and remembrance. It is a reminder to the whole world of what Russian aggression is and the cost of fighting for independence. And in this, no rule has been broken.

It is Russia that constantly violates Olympic principles, using the period of the Olympic Games to wage war. In 2008, it was the war against Georgia; in 2014 – the occupation of Crimea; in 2022 – the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And now, in 2026, despite repeated calls for a ceasefire during the Winter Olympics, Russia shows complete disregard, increasing missile and drone strikes on our energy infrastructure and our people.

660 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have been killed by Russia since the full-scale invasion began. Hundreds of our athletes will never again be able to take part in the Olympic Games or any other international competitions. And yet, 13 Russians are currently in Italy competing at the Olympics. They compete under “neutral” flags at the Games, while in real life publicly supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine and the occupation of our territories. And they are the ones who deserve disqualification.

We are proud of Vladyslav and of what he did. Having courage is worth more than any medal.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

The rage I have after reading this is incandescent.