… Claude’s coding agent has become a favored tool among developers, including those working on open-source AI research projects, and researchers tell WIRED that the company’s latest policy could have led to a troubling future in which only a handful of leading AI labs could perform advanced AI resear… …
… One of them was led by Mishchenko and Thibault Sottiaux, a former Google DeepMind researcher who’s now OpenAI’s head of Codex. Initially, they were most interested in coding agents as a way to speed up AI research—automating the grunt work of managing training runs and monitoring GPU clusters. …
… By playing Aristotle to AI Alexander, do you risk your work becoming an instrument for hype-building and myth-making? “It’s quite good for the public perception of the tech companies if people are led to believe they are doing something incredibly unusual and incredibly powerful,” Harcourt says. “T… …
… All of these added wrinkles will pose new challenges for AI safety. “People who are working on AI safety need to think, if this transfer station infrastructure remains, how are you going to monitor bad actors and prevent them from doing bad things?” Qian says. …
… One Meta safety and security engineer made a “rookie mistake” in an OpenClaw project and watched in horror as her inbox began deleting all her mail. But for all its risks, OpenClaw helped expose a broad swath of techies to the power of an agent. …