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Would You Like to Play a Game? The Attacker Already Has.
Are game-theoretic tripwires our key defense against AI attack? There’s a scene in a Batman movie, The Dark Knight, where the Joker explains his philosophy of chaos to Harvey Dent: “I’m not a schemer. I show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.” The Joker is, of course, lying. He’s the…
Read MoreA Nightmare on LLM Street: The Peril of Emergent Misalignment
Or: Has AI Now Sent the Human Hacker to the Unemployment Line Also? The Call is Coming from Inside the House In the 1979 horror film When a Stranger Calls, a babysitter terrorized by anonymous phone calls eventually learns the calls are originating from a second line inside the house she thought she was protecting.…
Read MoreAI Leadership: Perspectives from Academia and Venture on the Future of AI
Rapid advancements in AI will continue to transform the ways in which we work and live. To understand the scope of its impact is complex, requiring an understanding of multiple perspectives that transcend both practice and research. As we continue to push the frontier of AI capabilities, it is critical to shape its trajectory with…
Read MoreDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Revisited: Agentic AI, Chain-of-Thought & Emergent Misalignment
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson Can We Chat? You may have seen the recent, and much-publicized, working paper titled “Large Language Models, Small Labor Effects” (Humlum & Vestergaard 2025), gauging…
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