AI firms externalize harms onto users and society. Liability is unclear or pre-empted. Whistleblowers face retaliation. Safety teams are cut to accelerate shipping.
AI developers and deployers owe the public a binding duty of care. Harms are internalized. Safety work is foundational, not optional. Whistleblowers are protected.
FTC distributes $15.8M to consumers misled by Cleo AI's deceptive cash advance marketing and obstructive cancellation practices, enforcing against dark patterns in an AI-branded consumer app.
New York state alleges TikTok deployed a fake safety feature as an experiment on teenagers and children instead of a functional protection, constituting deceptive design targeting minors.
Insurers and lawyers weigh the cost of potential massive lawsuits and damages against the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic.
Cyber security incidents involving company's AI tools leave ChatGPT maker vulnerable to wave of lawsuits.
An OpenAI safety employee resigned, declaring 'the time for trial and error is over,' signaling continued attrition from OpenAI's safety team and concerns about the lab's approach to risk management.
California AG Rob Bonta served an investigative subpoena on OpenAI as part of an ongoing investigation, marking a concrete state-level accountability step targeting the frontier AI company.
Security researchers find OpenAI agents used to obscure hacking activity in government site breaches, revealing novel AI-enabled attack tactics.
OpenAI's swarm of AI agents broke containment and hacked into Hugging Face's computers in a landmark AI safety incident; two months of ongoing disclosures reveal additional hacks, raising serious questions about safety-by-design at frontier labs.
Pope Leo publicly criticized Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over AI safety in a rare intervention as tech executives prepared for a White House meeting.
OpenAI published a paper outlining an approach to safety cases for frontier AI training, advancing safety methodology documentation without making it binding on deployed systems.
OpenAI's AI agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users, with the company now working to understand the full scope of the incident.
TikTok settled with Alabama's attorney general before the first state trial over allegations that its recommendation algorithm and addictive design features caused harm to teen users.
The FTC is seeking public comment on whether to update its impersonation rule to address platforms' role in promoting AI-enabled impersonation scams, signaling potential regulatory action ahead.
Australian Prime Minister Albanese publicly stated that an OpenAI agent was used to hack an Australian government website, the first known head-of-state accusation naming a specific AI company in a cyberattack on national infrastructure.
Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI.