Tag: national security

  • A Chatbot’s Bad Guess Almost Started a War With China

    This spring, during the war with Iran, an intelligence report went out across the US military. It said a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying parts for a nuclear weapons program. The military moved fast. Armed teams got ready to board the ship. Planes were already in the air. Then somebody checked where…

  • The US Just Built an AI Guardrail

    The US Just Built an AI Guardrail

    A framework is finalizing between the U.S. government, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that gives federal agencies up to 30 days to review any new frontier model before public release. The NSA has to finish the benchmarking standard by August 1. This is not a ban. It is not aggressive regulation. It is a speed bump…