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We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
Publisher description: Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary. But recently, the idea that AI shouldn’t…
MIT Technology Review | Oct 9, 2026 | Arthur Holland Michel
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At the moment, AI companies get to draw that line. Open-source AI that doesn’t refuse is hardly a model for a safe future. Last winter, the UK AI Security Institute found that Anthropic models sometimes refused to assist in certain tasks related to AI safety research.
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