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AI safety tests found to rely on 'obvious' trigger words; with easy rephrasing, models labeled 'reasonably safe' suddenly fail, with attacks succeeding up to 98% of the time. New corporate research ...

Some of the biggest names in tech have taken aggressive steps against the inflammatory rhetoric of President Trump and some of his allies that culminated last week with a mob of his supporters ...