Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare — And We Can Prove It
Eight CVEs. A wormable Bluetooth exploit. An encrypted backdoor to Chinese servers. And police departments buying them anyway.
Tag: research
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Beyond Optimisation: The Emergence of Learning Mechanics as a Formal Science
A new paper argues that a scientific theory of deep learning is forming — one that makes falsifiable predictions about training dynamics, not just bounds.
The Organismic Line: Where Predictive Processing Stops Being a Metaphor
Predictive processing travels into AI. Active inference does not, unless the system can pay for being wrong.
The Economics of Inadequate Safety
AI safety fails when it is funded like a pilot. Until safety has a real price, the J-curve trough is also a safety trough.
How to Read a Safety Claim
A literacy guide for non-technical decision-makers on spotting AI safety theatre, understanding ASR inflation, and the five-question architectural test.
Multi-Agent Safety Is the New Supply Chain Security
Multi-agent AI systems reproduce software supply-chain failure at the cognitive layer. The security playbook transfers.
Architectural Safety: The General Principle
AI safety has to be a property of the system around the model, not a property of the model. The general principle, and why every safety conversation needs it.
The Organismic Prophecy
Human prediction is metabolic. AI prediction is not. The gap between the two has consequences for both clinical practice and AI safety vocabulary.
Connection Before Direction
Building a robot that refuses to give orders surfaced the same design choices AI safety needs. Non-coercive design, cross-domain.
AI Nationalism and the Fracturing Digital Order
The US-China AI rivalry is splitting the global tech stack into competing blocs. A strategic assessment of what comes next.
The Post-Model Era
Foundation models are commoditising. JPMorgan calls OpenAI's moat 'increasingly fragile.' The real value is shifting to the messy plumbing underneath.
The Mitigation Gap
Biosecurity experts think AI safeguards reduce catastrophic biorisk by 70%. The technical evidence says those safeguards are brittle and bypassable.