AI #191: The Hackening Begins

It was the probably worst day in cybersecurity history. So far. Not only is there a critical flaw in PHP that due to a leak was announced a day before the fix would be available, sending most of the internet scrambling for solutions and likely dooming a lot of long tail websites permanently, there were several other unrelated incidents. The floodgates seem to have been opened. I have a market on whether there will be an even worse day before the end of the year . Another key leak this week was the draft bill Anthropic had been shopping around Congress , similar to but weaker than the FRONTIER Act. Anthropic’s initial attempts to explain itself only made the situation seem worse, as they seemed to not understand the problem with what they had done. Dario’s later response was better, but the situation remains troubling. There are enough different Anthropic developments, that I plan to have a post soon covering them all. It is a mix of news running from excellent to terrible. Will interpretability save us ? There is a new claim that neural networks are cleaner than we thought, meaning that individual neurons mostly have a single interpretable meaning, and it is tractable to go through