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On June 9th, Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model. Three days later, the US government classified it as a dangerous munition, and used its export-control authority to prohibit any foreign nationals from accessing it. Unable to differentiate between Americans and foreigners, the company shut off access for everyone.
The government’s actions won’t help. The problem isn’t any one particular model; it’s the general trend of increasing AI capabilities. And any real solution requires the sort of collective action that just isn’t possible right now.
Fable is the constrained version of Mythos, the AI model Anthropic announced in April. Anthropic only released it to a few selected organizations, because the company claimed it was so good at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in computer code that releasing it more generally would be dangerous.
It was an obviously self-serving announcement, and because few were able to verify Anthropic’s claims they were met with some skepticism. Those with access used Mythos to find and patch many vulnerabilities in their own software. But one UK group found the latest, already public, OpenAI model to be just as powerful.
Fable is just another incremental improvement in the years-long climb of AI capabilities. But just as important as the AI model is the “harness.” This is typically not AI. It’s ordinary computer code that interfaces with the user. It stitches together AI models, decides how and for what purposes they can be used, and gives them useful tools such as web search and the ability to run their own computer code.
When Mythos first entered limited release, there was widespread debate whether its power came from the model or the harness. With Mythos demonstrating that it was possible, the open-source community scrambled to build harnesses that could steer other AI models towards similar capabilities. Harness improvements don’t need massive data or data centers.
They largely succeeded. For example, a Prague company was able to replicate Anthropic’s few verifiable cybersecurity capabilities with a much smaller and cheaper model—and a more sophisticated harness. Last week, a group showed that multiple cheaper models harnessed in concert matches Fable’s performance.
The broader community had only a few days with Fable, but that time we learned some about its capabilities. Its difference is less the new model’s raw analytical and problem solving capabilities, and more that the model doesn’t need that sophisticated harness.
Fable requires much less expertise and detailed prompting from the human user. You can give it a difficult goal and it will figure out novel and unexpected ways to satisfy it, finding loopholes in whatever constraints you or the system have imposed on it.
“Relentlessly proactive” is how AI researcher Simon Willison described it. Another descriptor might be “creative.” Experienced AI developers have had that combination of creativity and proactivity since last year, but Fable puts it within easy reach of everyone.
In the hands of someone with a legitimate problem that needs solving, that can be an incredibly useful capability. But in the hands of someone who wants to do harm, it can be equally dangerous. AIs don’t have a moral compass in the same way that people do. They are agents of the wants and desires of the people who prompt them.
That points to the real problem with relentlessly proactive AI. In language, wants and desires are always underspecified. If I ask you to get me some coffee, you would probably pour me a cup from the coffeepot, or buy one from a nearby coffee shop.
You couldn’t buy me a pound of raw beans, or a coffee plantation. You wouldn’t order a cup of coffee for delivery next month. You wouldn’t find a nearby person, rip a cup of coffee out of their hands, and bring it to me. I wouldn’t have to specify any of the million limitations to my request; you would just know.
Human stories are filled with warnings about underspecified desires. King Midas wished that everything he touch turn to gold, forgetting to add “but not my food, drink, and daughter.” And genies are notorious for granting your wish in a way you wish they hadn’t.
The deeper point is that it’s impossible to list all limitations and restrictions, and like a malicious genie, a creative AI will find the ones you forgot. Block a database you don’t want it to have access to, and it might figure out how to bypass your control. Ask it to book a flight, and it might hack the airline because the website says the flight is sold out. Ask it to save money on your cellphone plan, and it might cancel it altogether—or get someone else to pay for it. As far as we know now AI has not done any of this yet, but you get the idea.
Malicious intent is not required. To an AI model, constraints are just things to get around and not general truisms about the world. They are creative problem solvers and natural rule breakers. They “hack” in the sense that they find and exploit loopholes.
Human systems rely on so many norms that we scarcely recognize the existence of until they are broken. AIs naturally think outside the box, because they don’t have any real conception of what the box is or why it’s there in the first place.
There is no foolproof way to prevent people from using AI models to complete harmful tasks. There is no way to prevent the models from incidentally causing harm while completing benign tasks. AI models are no longer isolated from the real world. They browse the internet and answer emails.
They trade stocks and make purchases. They control physical systems. They are, in effect, robots that affect life and property. We have no technical mechanisms to verify the integrity of an AI system. This level of capability and creativity in the hands of us untrustworthy humans will have both great and terrible results.
The problem is not unique to Anthropic. Mythos/Fable might currently be the most capable rules hacker, but more sophisticated harnesses give other models similar capabilities. And we should assume that the other frontier models are no more than a few months behind, and that open-source models are less than a year behind. At best, any ban only serves to delay the problem for a short while.
That delay might be useful if we—as a society, as a planet—would use that time to come together and figure out what to do. This isn’t a US/China arms race problem; this a species-level problem that requires coordinated action at that scale. Unfortunately, we have no mechanism to do that. I first wrote about this problem five years ago, but it was all too futuristic.
Today, when its right in front of us, there is no world government that can impose constraints on the for-profit corporations currently controlling AI models and research. The US has no appetite to effectively and even-handedly regulate those corporations, even as they do catastrophic damage to the environment, democracy, and—in this case—society in general.
This all makes an AI public option all the more necessary, and urgent. Today’s AIs can be fast, smart and secure, but only two of the three are possible for any given system. These safety tradeoffs are tightly held secrets of companies racing to beat one another, and they tell us we have to trust them. Instead, the choices and their consequences need to be brought out into the sunlight.
We should be funding open-source harnesses that balance capability and safety—that achieve useful goals without so much power—and open-source AI models whose provenance and biases are public and well understood. We have opened the AI Pandora’s box. Now we have to make the best of it.
This essay originally appeared in The Guardian.
A non-profit organization that helps Russian men avoid military service said it was contacted by several people in the city of Penza and nearby towns who described men being “rounded up indiscriminately.”
Bij de doffe ellende in Meerstad vallen de puzzelstukjes langzaam maar zeker op de plek. Johan en Mathilda (53) zijn om het leven gebracht (althans, daar twijfelt niemand meer aan) door hun bloedeigen tienerdochter, die waarschijnlijk 13 maar mogelijk ook 14 of 15 jaar oud is - haar leeftijd is nog niet officieel bevestigd door de politie. In de buurtapp werd gesuggereerd dat het meisje zou zijn 'doorgedraaid'; in DVHN werd gesteld dat de ouders mogelijk dinsdag al om het leven zijn gebracht. "In een steegje bij het huis hing een penetrante geur." Discrepantie: tegen De Telegraaf en het AD zeggen mensen dat ze de man woensdagavond nog met de hond hebben zien wandelen. Die hond, Max genaamd, werd ook gestoken. Het arme beest kwam bloedend en in de war naar buiten.
Hedenochtend vertelt RTV Noord-verslaggever Goos de Boer bij WNL over de verhalen op straat. Het meisje zou 'lastig' en 'vreemd' zijn geweest. "Er wordt bijvoorbeeld gezegd dat ze iets met dieren had, en dat ze altijd bezig was met dieren, maar ook wel in negatieve zin." Dat beeld komt ook naar voren in de krant: "'Het liefst wilde ze een dier zijn”, vertelt een moeder van wie de dochters bij de verdachte in de klas zaten op de basisschool. 'De kinderen komen nu ook met het verhaal dat ze haar kat zo erg had verwond dat die is doodgegaan'." In het AD wordt het omschreven als 'apart gedrag'. "Onlangs nog zag de vriendin van buurtgenoot Sander het meisje rond middernacht hard rennend over straat gaan. Ze keek strak voor zich uit en leek onbereikbaar. Ook is ze meermaals gezien terwijl ze in de struiken zat. Buurvrouw Heleen zag haar niet zo lang geleden op het dak van het schuurtje in de achtertuin klimmen, waar ze enige tijd bleef zitten. Ook zat ze regelmatig op de schutting." Zij omschrijft het meisje als 'bijzonder'. Op de school van het meisje is 'verslagen' gereageerd. Wat een ramp.
SocialA dynamic new strategy would allow the BBC to redefine what trusted news means, as it is still valued highly in this age of anxiety
Timing is all, and the timing of last week’s brutal job cuts at the BBC News could have been better. Not just because the director general Matt Brittin was reportedly on holiday, but because the announcement came straight after a new report showed social media platforms and AI chatbots had now overtaken traditional TV channels and websites as people’s first port of call for news.
The same Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report also noted higher levels of global uncertainty and anxiety – caused not just by geopolitical instability, economic and environmental fears, but by a loss of trust in institutions, and in the news itself.
Jane Martinson is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Reform UK party leader calls Andy Burnham’s byelection win ‘emphatic’ and makes appeal to voters of far-right Restore Britain
Nigel Farage has urged people who voted for Restore Britain in the Makerfield byelection to back Reform UK instead, after what he accepted had been a “disappointing” night for his party.
Reform’s candidate, Robert Kenyon, came second to Andy Burnham, but was more than 9,000 votes behind after what was often a difficult campaign for the local plumber, who was dogged by questions about sexist comments and other social media posts.
Continue reading...ASSEN (ANP) - Het Openbaar Ministerie heeft besloten niet in hoger beroep te gaan in de zaak over de kunstroof in het Drents Museum. De rechtbank legde twee weken geleden celstraffen op van drie jaar en elf maanden aan de drie mannen uit Heerhugowaard die in januari vorig jaar de gouden helm van Coțofenești en drie gouden armbanden uit het museum in Assen roofden.
Het OM had met twee verdachten, Jan B. (21) en Douglas Chesley W. (37), een deal gesloten en afgesproken niet in hoger beroep te gaan als de rechtbank de procesafspraken grotendeels zou volgen. Dat lag anders bij de derde verdachte Bernhard Z. (36), tegen wie 5,5 jaar cel was geëist. De rechtbank legde hem dezelfde straf op als de medeverdachten. Die hadden ervoor gezorgd dat de kunstschatten, op een gouden armband na, op 1 april werden terugbezorgd.
Na lezing van het vonnis vinden de officieren van justitie dat "voldoende recht is gedaan", laat het OM vrijdag weten. Het advocatenkantoor van Z. meldde eerder deze week al dat hun cliënt zelf ook niet in hoger beroep gaat.
TEL AVIV (ANP/AFP/DPA) - Israël heeft hevige aanvallen op Libanon uitgevoerd in het zuiden en in de Bekaavallei. Het leger zegt tachtig doelen te hebben bestookt en tientallen Hezbollahstrijders te hebben gedood. Dit was volgens het leger naar aanleiding van een raketbeschieting door Hezbollah in Libanon waarbij vier Israëlische militairen omkwamen.
Volgens Libanese media waren vooral woningen het doelwit. Het ministerie van Gezondheid heeft vooralsnog achttien doden en ruim dertig gewonden geteld. Acht doden behoorden tot dezelfde familie. Libanese veiligheidsbronnen zeiden dat onder meer de plaats Kfar Tebnit zwaar is getroffen door de aanvallen. Er zou in de buurt zijn gevochten tussen Israëli's en Hezbollahstrijders.
De Israëlische aanvallen zijn vlak na het ondertekenen van een basisakkoord voor vrede door de presidenten van Iran en van de VS, Masoud Pezeshkian en Donald Trump. Uitgangspunt is dat de vijandelijkheden meteen stoppen, ook in Libanon. Trump heeft dit beklemtoond.
Voor de provincie Limburg geldt vrijdag vanaf 15.00 uur code oranje vanwege zware onweersbuien. Het KNMI meldt dat er plaatselijk kans is op overlast en schade door zware windstoten, hagel en veel regen in korte tijd.
Voor de rest van het land is code geel van kracht, maar mogelijk gaat voor meer provincies code oranje gelden.
Volgens de grote supermarktketens zelf zijn de prijzen in Nederland niet hoger dan in buurlanden. Toch zijn er talloze praktijkvoorbeelden die het tegendeel bewijzen. In de Tweede Kamer kwamen supermarkten uitleggen hoe dat zit.
Zo zeiden ze bijvoorbeeld over zonnebrandcrème dat de prijs ervan sterk wisselt en dat het product vaak in de aanbieding is als twee voor de prijs van een, maar dan moet je dus wel twee flessen kopen, terwijl je er maar eentje nodig hebt.
Verder stellen de woordvoerders van de grote supermarkten dat de productiekosten zijn gestegen en dat grondstoffen duurder zijn geworden, maar daar hebben buitenlandse supermarkten natuurlijk net zo goed mee te maken.
"Droogtes in Spanje, de regens in Zuid-Amerika, die hebben gewoon invloed op de prijzen’’, stelt Constantijn Ninck Blok, directeur merchandising van Albert Heijn, volgens het AD. "Op rundvlees is de prijsstijging soms wel 50 procent. We doen er alles aan om producten zo goedkoop mogelijk in te kopen, maar dat lukt niet altijd. We kunnen dat verschil niet altijd incasseren.”
Nederland aanbiedingenland
Pieter Omtzigt merkte terecht op: "De inflatie is hier hoger dan in omliggende landen dóór de prijs van boodschappen. In Frankrijk is dat echt minder. Het schiet hier omhoog. Hoe kunnen we ervoor zorgen dat de prijzen niet meer zo stijgen?”
De supermarkten hebben niet echt een antwoord, behalve dat Nederland een 'aanbiedingenland' is. Daardoor wisselen de prijzen vaak en zouden boodschappen per saldo helemaal niet duurder zijn over de grens.
Professor Retail Laurens Sloot, die 7000 producten vergeleek, nuanceert: sommige producten zijn hier duurder, andere goedkoper. "De voorbeelden die worden gegeven zijn vooral van het drogisterijkanaal. Maar als je naar het grote beeld kijkt, dan zijn de Schijf van Vijf-producten in Nederland 4-5-6 procent goedkoper dan bij onze zuiderburen. Daar staat tegenover dat onze houdbare producten weer wat duurder zijn.”
Bron: AD.nl
Mentaal sterke mensen blijken één opvallende eigenschap te delen: ze kunnen hun emoties zó reguleren dat ze onder druk helder blijven denken en doelgericht blijven handelen. Die vaardigheid – psychologen spreken van emotieregulatie of cognitieve herwaardering – is geen superkracht, maar een trainbare mentale gewoonte.
In de sportpsychologie en persoonlijkheidsleer wordt mentale kracht vaak omschreven als het vermogen om met stress, tegenslag en druk om te gaan zonder de controle te verliezen. Daarin spelen klassieke “4 C’s” een rol: controle, commitment, challenge en confidence. Onderzoek laat zien dat mentaal sterke mensen niet mínder voelen, maar anders met hun gevoelens omgaan: ze kunnen negatieve prikkels heretiketteren en hun aandacht verleggen.
De eigenschap: bewust sturen van je binnenwereld
In het stuk waar dit artikel op leunt, wordt die gedeelde eigenschap beschreven als het vermogen om bewust afstand te nemen van de eerste emotionele reflex. Niet elk gevoel hoeft direct een actie te dicteren; mentaal sterke mensen bouwen een mini-pauze in tussen impuls en reactie. Ze accepteren emoties, maar laten hun gedrag vooral sturen door waarden, doelen en een langere tijdshorizon.
Cruciaal is dat dit geen stoerdoenerij is, maar juist samenhangt met zelfkennis en mildheid. Wie zijn binnenwereld kent, kan beter kiezen: is dit een moment om door te zetten, of juist om even pas op de plaats te maken? Die flexibele innerlijke regie blijkt bij veel veerkrachtige mensen dezelfde rode draad.
Takao Iwata has added a photo to the pool:
Gernot Trauner vertrekt na vijf seizoenen bij Feyenoord. Dat meldt de Oostenrijker op zijn persoonlijke Instagram-pagina. Het contract van de verdediger was al verlopen, maar nu is zijn vertrek dus officieel.
bpanneman has added a photo to the pool:
On Thursday during a developer event held at San Francisco's St. Regis Hotel, the marketing stack failed. Literally. During an AI agent workflow demo on the fourth floor balcony, the wind toppled a tower of three cardboard promotional display cubes. One of these – maybe three or four feet per side – fell over the edge of the balcony and plummeted onto Minna Street below. Concerned staff rushed to the edge of the parapet and peered over. Evidently satisfied that no one had been injured, they proceeded to dismantle the other stack of boxes, just to be safe – an uncommon level of caution in the context of AI-assisted software development. Consider the incident a metaphor for the chaos created by the tech industry's frantic rush to automate whatever can be automated with machine learning models and associated tools. The event, Localhost, was put on by hosting biz Render as a confab for devs building software for the "AI-native web." But many attendees expressed uncertainty about the rapid pace of change in the industry. As one CTO attendee remarked, not realizing he was in earshot of a reporter, "How're we going to do this? I don't fucking know. That's what I have to figure out." The CTO said he was looking for engineers to hire, the very thing major tech companies have been dumping to balance capex costs. Rohan Chavan, who recently earned his master’s degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech, shared a similar sentiment. "Every other day," he told The Register in an interview, "there's some new term. A week or two ago, it was harness engineering. Now it's loop engineering." Chavan said he found the current state of play both exciting and frustrating. He's looking for a job in AI security and estimated that about 30 percent of his class of around 120 has been hired so far. It's very difficult, he said, to build deep knowledge when things are changing so fast and there's so much to learn. Localhost, the company's first user conference in its eight years of existence, aims to help with that by evangelizing the company's technical stack. Some promotion might just be useful. As the aforementioned CTO confided to one of Render's staff, enterprise customers expect to hear that services run on AWS, Azure, or maybe Google Cloud. "They don't expect to hear Render," he lamented. Nonetheless, Render is doing rather well, according to founder and CEO Anurag Goel, who opened the afternoon's presentations with the requisite recitation of metrics – 400,000 developers joining every month, 10 million live services, 200 billion monthly requests. "All of these numbers are growing very rapidly," he said. "But behind these numbers, we're also seeing a big change in how applications are evolving to use infrastructure." Until a few years ago, he said, infrastructure was relatively static. You deployed an application and the various elements – databases, APIs, caches, and so on – stayed pretty much the same. AI apps, he contends, are fundamentally different. "They are dynamic applications that go beyond existing infrastructure patterns," Goel explained. "Now, in addition to you defining your application statically, the applications themselves are provisioning their own infrastructure resources." As an example, he described how the resources required by a research agent can vary from question to question. One user query might require lightweight web scripting. Another might require a headless browser and 128 GB of RAM to process a dataset. And the duration of such tasks can also vary significantly. "What we're learning is that any request can trigger hundreds or thousands of different tasks in ways that your code can never really know in advance," he said. This doesn't work on serverless platforms, Goel contends, because of platform limitations that cap execution time, memory, storage, and application size. Render's answer to this technical challenge is what Goel calls application-defined compute. It allows applications to run workloads without pre-provisioning. "Instead of pre-defining the infrastructure for your application, you allow the application to define what it needs at runtime with the right guardrails," he explained. With any luck, Render's guardrails will prevent a pummeling by promotional props better than those at the St. Regis. ®
