Category: Journal

OpenAI and Anthropic have told Australian lawmakers they would support mandatory reporting of data breaches caused by AI agents. The debate points to a much larger problem: autonomous AI is beginning to operate faster than the regulatory systems designed to control it. Artificial intelligence regulation has often focused on what models might say, what data […]

Anthropic’s latest threat intelligence report offers one of the clearest views yet of how artificial intelligence is being absorbed into cybercrime, espionage, surveillance, propaganda, weapons development and fraud. The central warning is not that AI has suddenly invented entirely new categories of threat. It is that it is making existing threats faster, cheaper, easier to […]

The resignation of an Anthropic researcher is another reminder that artificial intelligence belongs in a much wider conversation about systemic risk, human judgement and the technologies we are creating faster than we can govern them. For years, discussion about artificial intelligence has tended to divide into two camps. On one side are those promising extraordinary […]

Cybersecurity was once something most people associated primarily with companies and governments. Organisations maintained computer systems, criminals attempted to break into them and specialist teams were employed to keep the attackers out. That world still exists, but another security perimeter has become increasingly important. It is us. Every day ordinary people make dozens of small […]

A message arrives offering exactly the opportunity you have been looking for. The company exists. The person contacting you appears to have a credible professional profile. The role fits your experience remarkably well and the approach contains enough personal detail to suggest that somebody has genuinely considered whether you might be suitable. That should be […]

Artificial intelligence has been built on a simple assumption. There will always be more data to learn from. More books, websites, code, images, videos, scientific papers and human behaviour. For much of the past decade, that assumption has held. Larger models trained on larger datasets have often produced better results. But the easy supply of […]

Cybersecurity has spent decades as a contest between attackers looking for weaknesses and defenders trying to close them. Artificial intelligence is now changing the speed and scale of that contest so dramatically that cyber risk may need to be viewed less as an IT problem and more as a threat to the infrastructure on which […]

Artificial intelligence is usually presented as an economic opportunity. It could increase productivity, automate routine work, accelerate research and create entirely new industries. But the amount of money now flowing into AI is also creating a different kind of risk. Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England and chair of the international Financial Stability […]

The overlooked side of the AI revolution There is a lot of talk about how intelligent artificial intelligence is becoming. Every few months, the models get faster, more capable and more convincing. They can analyse data, write code, draft contracts, compose music, interpret images and hold conversations that would have seemed extraordinary only a few […]

This year, artificial intelligence seems to have crossed an important threshold. Not because machines have suddenly become conscious, taken control of the world or fulfilled any of the more dramatic predictions that have surrounded AI for decades. Something rather more practical has happened. It has become genuinely useful. The latest generation of AI models can […]