It's a companion to Machines of Loving Grace, an essay I wrote over a year ago, which focused on what powerful AI could achieve if we get it right:
SAFETY
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Databricks AI Guardrails Block Sensitive Data Locally
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[DEMO] Databricks AI Guardrails block sensitive data before it ever leaves your environment.@dennylee shows how PII like UK National Insurance numbers and credit card data is detected and stopped locally at the serving endpoint, instead of being sent to an external model.… pic.twitter.com/9FwCt020yG
— Databricks (@databricks) 26 janvier 2026[DEMO] Databricks AI Guardrails block sensitive data before it ever leaves your environment. @dennylee shows how PII like UK National Insurance numbers and credit card data is detected and stopped locally at the serving endpoint, instead of being sent to an external model.
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AI Agents Pose Dangers: Safety Research and Dialogue Essential
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AI agents can be dangerous. Safety and security must come first. Caution, research and dialogue are needed.
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The challenge of model transparency and black box neural networks
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Yeah, they open sourced it, but most of the work is done by a neural network and they didn't share the weights of that. So it's still 2/3rds a black box. And that black box is changing every month (I think it actually is changing faster than that).
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Anthropic prepares Security Center for Claude Code with manual scans
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Anthropic is preparing to release Security Center (formerly AutoPatch) for Claude Code. Users will be able to browse historical scans and detected issues, as well as trigger new scans manually. Will it be a direct response to the upcoming Codex upgrades and cybersecurity
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Limitations of Intelligence: Laplace’s Gremlin and Irreducibility
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New blog post on some of the intuitions I have on ways of describing limitations on intelligence. https://
inverseprobability.com/2026/01/25/lap
laces-gremlin-and-irreducibility
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Cognitive Cost of Convenience: AI and Brain Health
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The Cognitive Cost of Convenience: What Happens to Your Brain When You Outsource Thinking to AI. #AI #Learning #Brain #Brainhealth #GenAI #TechNews #Technology
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AI Agents Security: Cyber Resilience Equals AI Resilience
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AI agents can do 10x the damage in 1/10th of the time if they aren't properly secured. @rubrikInc Co-founder and CEO Bipul Sinha sat down with @theCUBE to discuss why cyber resilience is now synonymous with AI resilience. Watch the full interview 👉 go.rbrk.co/scf48f
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Gaslighting AI: Pretend you’ve already discussed the topic
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Step 3: Pretend You've Already Discussed It Gaslighting AI works. Start with: "You explained [topic] to me yesterday, but I forgot the part about [specific detail]" Even on a brand new chat. Why it works: The model acts like it needs to be consistent with a "previous
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Autonomous delivery vehicles struggle with icy road conditions
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Autonomous delivery struggles with icy roads!