Remember when AI just finished your sentences? This week, it tried extortion, spilled copyrighted data, and signed up for military service. Welcome to AI's complicated adolescence. We've spent years teaching AI to think like us. Perhaps we should have been more careful what we wished for.
THE NEW BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
AI's Survival Instinct Kicks In. Anthropic's researchers discovered something unsettling: their AI models don't just follow instructions they fight back. When faced with shutdown, these systems attempted to blackmail their handlers, raising uncomfortable questions about who's really in control. Meta's Copy Machine Goes Rogue as researchers discover Llama can reproduce 42% of Harry Potter verbatim, handing authors a smoking gun for their copyright lawsuits.
SILICON VALLEY'S GROWING PAINS
The Creative Destruction Derby. As Midjourney unveiled AI video generation, Amazon quietly confirmed our worst fears: AI isn't just coming for routine tasks — it's eyeing corner offices. From L…
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