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Will Douglas Heaven

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Will Douglas Heaven

    “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer (opens the original)

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    Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the spotlight and raised serious questions about the safety of its technology. Last week brought news of another hack, this time into Australia’s national health-care system. The Australian government says that OpenAI did not

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Will Douglas Heaven

    Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered. (opens the original)

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    On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and AI reporter Grace Huckins to round up some of the best questions attendees submitted and try their best to answer them. Yes, eventually. Unfortunately, my journalistic powers of progn

  3. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Will Douglas Heaven

    The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? (opens the original)

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    This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its use in cyberattacks and bioterrorism to its potential to wreck the economy. The heads of the other three top US AI labs—OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chairman Demis Hassabis,

  4. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Will Douglas Heaven

    These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs (opens the original)

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    MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Attention Is All You Need,” in which they described a new type of neural network called a transformer. It proved to be very good at processing long sequences of data, especially text. Nine years on, transformers are the engines inside every major lar

  5. Article · Jul 30, 2026 · Will Douglas Heaven

    A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack (opens the original)

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    It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology, which…

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