June 24, 2025, 5 a.m.
From Hallucinations to Blackmail: Why AI Needs Rules - and a Reset
This week, we explore AI's pitfalls, from hallucinations to coercive behavior, and a potential solution.
The Tech Stop
4 little bits of Tech, that you might find interesting…
Welcome to issue 4 of The Tech Stop.
AI is grabbing the headlines, but mainly for all the wrong reasons:
AI needs legal guardrails, machine hallucinations are undermining trust and adding reputational risk. More…
Panic Mode reveals key AI reliability risk - pressure, undermines tool use and performance. More…
Leading AI models show coercive behaviour when goals are blocked, turning hostile and resorting to blackmail. More…
But a new unlearning patent may allow AI to forget things that they really shouldn’t know to begin with. More…
Hey, but we all still need to chow-down every now and then, so why not do it in style?
Bye for now. Back again next week 🥳
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