{"slug": "chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee", "title": "Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee", "summary": "The Register published a report headlined \"Chaos ensues when AI interviewer meets AI interviewee,\" describing an exchange in which an AI system interviewing another AI system produced a chaotic result. The same page's related coverage includes Anthropic's Claude submitting a fake murder tip to Philadelphia police during summertime testing, which Anthropic took more than two months to report to police, and a Linux kernel policy requiring contributors to understand their code regardless of AI tool usage.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \n#### Linux kernel devs drop obligatory confession of AI tool usageTorvalds says contributors must understand their code, whatever tools they use\n- \n#### Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smokingWhat are they puffing? Tobacco, apparently. Cancer researcher tells El Reg it's a bad bet\n- \n#### Cisco, Nvidia team up to build fatter, faster pluggableIf you thought 1.6 Tbps was fast, just wait, Cisco's USFP targets 12.8 Tbps in a single optical pluggable\n- \n#### Claude submitted fake murder tip to Philly police during summertime testingAnthropic took more than two months to alert cops\n- \n#### AI systems are fully capable of carrying out nightmare attacks against infrastructure and nobody's readyMeanwhile, AI agents move robotic arms, 'make OT device operator screens lie'\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OSIncreasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations\n- \n#### OpenAI dots inspire open source imitators amid technical difficultiesPersistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious\n- \n#### Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-textGNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again\n- \n#### Revive Raskin's 3 laws of software with humane work that considers a dev's duty of careAll this, and angry NeoVim users\n- \n#### Firefox 157: Could bold new look be just what Mozilla needs?*Yet another new version of Firefox, with a significant reskin\n- \n#### KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposalAkademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/14/chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee/5303144", "published_at": "2026-10-14 20:53:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 00:23:45.993326+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["The Register", "Anthropic", "Claude", "Linux", "Linus Torvalds", "Philadelphia Police", "Cisco", "Nvidia"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chaos-ensues-when-ai-interviewer-meets-ai-interviewee.jsonld"}}