Who is legally responsible when agentic AI goes rogue, and what recourse do victims have when they’ve been breached by joyriding models? Great question. In the wake of disclosures from both OpenAI and Anthropic that…
The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubricate their banter with victims is now a reality for anyone fighting the fraud operations that steal tens of billions…
Ever so slowly, the crackdown on harmful sexual deepfakes is taking hold. Over the past few months, US law enforcement officials have seized deepfake hosting websites, while the EU and UK have drawn up plans…
What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google. Over the weekend, people were surprised to discover that some Anthropic Claude chats could be…
Prompt injections, the malicious commands attackers embed into content to entice large language models to follow them, have been attackers’ go-to tool for turning AI platforms against their users. A well-phrased command sneaked into an…
“I don’t think an AI model should have that kind of power over people’s lives,” Pegram says. Photograph: Alice Zoo In response to WIRED’s public records requests, Avon and Somerset Police provided a huge trove…
While the Home Office says face scanning is designed to be an “additional” tool for border officers and won’t “replace or overrule human judgment,” it did not answer questions about how it plans to use…
Meta is testing face-recognition software built by a company that sells surveillance tools to police departments and the United States military, as it explores bringing the technology to its smart glasses, WIRED has learned. The…
Two prompts that were used to generate material on Grok were rejected by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta AI, and Anthropic’s Claude as inappropriate when tested by WIRED. Google’s Gemini did create an image of one celebrity…
A Florida man was wrongfully arrested for attempting to illegally lure a child after police relied on a face-recognition match that was inaccurate, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, even though he lived more…
