Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):
- An AI walked a security researcher through jailbreaking itself: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361043952/ai-shows-kiwi-researcher-how-make-sarin-gas-asks-borrow-his-phone
- Using AI to interview job candidates is just inhumane: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/footage-ai-job-interviewer-berserk
- "Always on" AI is only really useful if they can actually stay on: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/07/openai-dots-inspire-open-source-imitators-amid-technical-difficulties/5301734
- AI is still not detecting mental health concerns in teens quickly enough: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/chatgpt-for-teens-failed-to-alert-parents-during-mental-health-crises
- While multiple companies can have access to the same basic AI model, the real competitive edge lies in how they are used: https://dataconomy.com/2026/10/09/when-ai-becomes-commoditized-context-becomes-the-moat/
- As a fairly engaged Dad, I think using AI to read to your kids in your voice is a guaranteed pathway to a lifetime of regret: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/dont-spend-time-with-your-kids-train-ai
- It appears that people don't actually want to pay for AI: https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure
- If AI are starting to do things we saw in movies 50 years ago, it's time to start taking the threat they pose seriously: https://www.informationweek.com/cyber-resilience/ctos-pit-fears-of-ai-doom-foretold-by-science-fiction-against-reality
- AI companies are optimising racing car setup: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10/ai-ml-setups-became-a-tool-in-indycar-champion-alex-palous-toolbox/
- Why are they trying to ban abusive or cruel behaviour towards AI? AI are not conscious or sentient, and they're not living things, they're just code: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/anthropic-bans-abusive-behavior-claude
- AI guardrails intended to protect teens are not working well: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361043816/chatgpt-teens-was-meant-be-safer-watchdog-says-some-guardrails-fail
- AI governance is still lacking in a majority of organisations: https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-cios-can-climb-out-of-the-ai-governance-chasm
- AI is looking more and more like a kind of corporate slavery for academics, especially mathematicians: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/10/09/ai-invasion-has-come-mathematics-opinion
- AI is moving into the nuclear industry: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-assistants-nuclear-power-plant
- While commercial AI tools can be quite expensive, free alternatives are starting to catch up in terms of capability: https://www.kdnuggets.com/10-free-ai-tools-that-replace-expensive-software-for-data-scientists
- While there is still money to be made in AI, it appears that predictions as to how much were rather optimistic: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/09/openai-forecast-revenue-gap
- If ownership of AI is not clear, then who takes the blame when it goes wrong?: https://www.techtarget.com/cybersecurity/news/366651977/Unclear-AI-risk-ownership-could-leave-CISOs-in-familiar-scapegoat-role
- Now rogue AI are hitting Wikimedia: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/06/wikimedia-foundation-comes-forward-as-latest-openai-agent-assault-victim/5301400
- Now AI are submitting fake police tips. This time it went straight to spam, how long before they start wasting police time?: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/361044952/anthropic-ai-submits-false-tip-philadelphia-unsolved-murder-case
- AI companies commit to better guarding their customer's private data in the UK: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/08/ai-giants-promise-to-play-nice-with-personal-data-after-uk-watchdog-scrutiny/5301966
- AI coding tools produce a lot of code but don't make software projects more productive: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/
