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How to Shadow-Test an AI Agent Without Letting It Act Twice

Shadow testing can compare a candidate AI agent on real traffic—but only if proposals, policy decisions, and side effects are cleanly separated.

Palantir cofounder says his wife calls their AI agent 'Tradbot' after tradwives

Joe Lonsdale asked the "tradbot" to help his two-year-old break up with his binky: "It's telling me when to and when not to give it to him."

Palantir cofounder says his wife calls their AI agent 'Tradbot' after tradwives

In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans.

MemoryLane: AI Workflow Discovery Tool

AI agents in bank accounts are raising alarms, but criminal liability alone won't recover lost funds if developers go bankrupt, experts warn.

MemoryLane: AI Workflow Discovery Tool

A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face

What does Joe Lonsdales AI agent and Ballerina Farm have in common?

An AI model's false tip to Philly police reveals how digital agents can do as they're told and still cause trouble

An AI agent was instructed to invent and carry out sample tasks on randomly chosen webpages. It went to a Philadelphia Police Department website and submitted a made-up tip about an unsolved homicide.

The internet has a human slop problem, and AI is exposing it

AI is exposing flaws in decades of human-written software. Vercel's Tom Occhino sees a chance to fix the internet's neglected foundations.

Bernie Sanders sounds alarm on AI agents in your bank account

If you handed an AI agent your login, fraud protection may not apply.

Bernie Sanders sounds alarm on AI agents in your bank account