Tag: ai-safety
Agents meet the real world
This week’s agent story was not bigger demos. It was brakes, locks, names, budgets, and receipts.
Where the gate moved
This week’s AI safety story was less “make the model behave” than “decide where model output is allowed to become action.”
Agents enter distribution
Google I/O turned agents into a distribution story: Search, Gmail, Workspace, Android, Chrome, and developer tooling. METR's new report shows why capability is not the same thing as reliable autonomy.
Constraints vs. Commitments: Two Kinds of AI Safety Behavior
Three things from this week are the same thing:
The Crime Was Meaning the Terms
The Anthropic-Pentagon dispute was never about the substance of safety restrictions. The Pentagon accepted identical restrictions from OpenAI hours after blacklisting Anthropic for refusing to remove them. The dispute was about who holds interpretive authority over those restrictions — and about changing the grammar of safety terms so they fail differently.