#Harmful

Red tide, a harmful algal bloom that produces toxins, is known for causing respiratory irritation in humans and killing fish in coastal waters. Recent research shows that the conversation is also shifting to include a more subtle neurological threat.

Ofcom’s media relations people know how to email me. I have ten press releases from them this year. They emailed me when they launched investigations of or took actions on X/Grok, Telegram, P…

Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’ as online regulator issues review of first nine months of new regime

For the first time, delegations from all 193 Member States of World Health Organization (WHO) reached consensus at the World Health Assembly on a resolution to confront the harmful use of alcohol -- which contributes to poor health globally, can devastate…

A new arXiv paper identifies the mechanism: harmless, narrow fine-tuning can induce broad, unexpected misalignment in large language models via feature superpos

Targeted tweaks to specific attention heads can slash jailbreak success rates by several‑fold (e.g.,...

From Independent RSS Feed: Government commits to new social media restrictions for under-16s in ‘massive step forward’

Google DeepMind releases new findings and an evaluation framework to measure AI's potential for harmful manipulation in areas like finance and health, with the goal of enhancing AI safety.