16th March 2026
The point of the blackmail exercise was to have something to describe to policymakers—results that are visceral enough to land with people, and make misalignment risk actually salient in practice for people who had never thought about it before.
— A member of Anthropic’s alignment-science team, as told to Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Recent articles
- New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging - 4th August 2026
- Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) - 31st July 2026
- OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened - 22nd July 2026