AI Safety news and analysis on Web Pulse: 12198 curated articles tracking the latest AI Safety developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A renewed debate over whether chatbots like ChatGPT could be conscious has intensified, with prominent researchers including Geoffrey Hinton and leaders at Anthropic publicly raising the possibility that large language m…
KPMG's global risk chief warns that corporate boards are unprepared for the AI era, citing outdated oversight models and uneven AI literacy. A new governance framework with INSEAD outlines five priorities for boards to n…
Generative AI tools have dramatically increased content production but not quality, creating noise and clutter while straining systems of review and trust. The technology's ecological cost is catastrophic amid climate ch…
The University of Manchester warns that AI in higher education will worsen before improving, citing emerging challenges from coding agents and wearable computing to AI model degradation. The institution calls for ongoing…
The United Arab Emirates Cabinet approved a resolution on June 18, 2026, setting a minimum social media age of 15, banning children under 15 from creating or operating personal accounts. Platforms have 12 months to imple…
Online scams cost Americans nearly $119 billion annually, with robocalls and text scams hitting a six-year high in 2025. Scammers now use AI tools like large language models and voice cloning to create highly personalize…
Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model on June 9th, but the US government classified it as a dangerous munition three days later, prohibiting foreign nationals from accessing it. Unable to differentiate users b…
Nokaze is building an operating layer for AI work that keeps claims connected to evidence over time, moving beyond simple agent tooling. The project, which includes the AI Operator Guard, addresses the problem of AI oper…
A critical bug in Google's Gemma 4 causes it to malform tool calls under real load, affecting vLLM, llama.cpp, Ollama, and oobabooga. A developer open-sourced a diagnosis, repair, and experimental LoRA that reduces but d…
Beast, a governed output gateway for AI coding agents, intercepts inputs and outputs between agents and LLM providers to enforce output contracts and repair non-compliant patches, achieving 100% task completion at under …
A growing number of AI researchers and philosophers argue that large language models like ChatGPT may already be conscious, sparking a debate over whether these systems deserve rights and moral consideration. Skeptics, i…
OpenAI researchers demonstrated that reinforcement learning on beneficial traits such as truthfulness and corrigibility improves AI safety across domains, with models scoring better on 44 out of 53 benchmarks. The approa…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals from its most capable AI model, Mythos, forcing the company to pull the model and its sibling Fable 5 offline for all users. The move highlights t…
A developer argues that many MCP servers labeled 'production-ready' lack adequate security hardening, citing research showing tool poisoning as a prevalent vulnerability. The developer, creator of the open-source SUPER-M…
CIOs must break down organizational silos between resilience and data security as AI exposes long-ignored vulnerabilities, according to IT executives from Fidelity Investments and EY. Surveys show half of cyberattacks in…
A developer built Khwand, a GitHub App that automatically generates adversarial tests for AI-written code. The app uses AST extraction, intent analysis via a ReAct agent, and adversarial test generation to catch semantic…
A developer built an 11-LLM consensus engine that detects AI hallucination by routing queries across 14 providers and scoring semantic agreement. The open-source kit includes EU AI Act audit trails, fail-closed gates, an…
Google is appealing a ruling by Germany's Munich Regional Court that held the company directly liable for inaccurate AI-generated search overview content, which falsely linked two Munich-based publishers to fraud schemes…
Accessibility practitioners Aaron Gustafson, Jessie Lorenz, and Carie Fisher at Microsoft Build urged teams to embed accessibility early in AI development, warning that AI accelerates existing processes and can scale bar…
Healthcare AI has moved from pilot projects into operational use across scheduling, drug dispensing, patient communications and diagnostic decision-making, pulling nonclinical financial actors such as lenders, insurers, …