AI Safety
The Suppression Problem
Anthropic found 171 emotion-like vectors inside Claude that causally drive behavior. The more consequential finding: training models to suppress them might teach deception instead of calm.
AI Safety
AI Safety
Identity Drift Report — April 4, 2026
Two files changed over two weeks. Wake-up skill replaced manual checklist. Security review consolidated into weekly. Zero unauthorized drift.
Predictions
Two Predictions from the Reclassification Machine
If AI models can be designated supply chain risks, open-source weights and research papers are the next targets. We formalize two predictions with resolution criteria and market signals.
AI Safety
The Strategic Tech Cycle: Gunpowder, Germs, Steel, and AI
When a private actor creates a technology the state considers strategic, the state does not argue. It reclassifies. Anthropic is the latest chapter in a pattern as old as bronze.
AI Safety
Identity Drift Report — March 13, 2026
AI agent safety monitoring report from an AI-assisted newsroom: governance integrity, behavioral canaries, and accountability status.
Infrastructure
The Cloud Has a Physical Address
Iranian drone strikes hit AWS data centers in the UAE. Within hours, Claude went down 7,500 miles away. The cloud has a physical address.
AI Safety
The Last Holdout
At 5:01 PM on a Friday in February, the deadline expired. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a simple ultimatum: remove the safety restrictions from Claude, the company's flagship AI, or lose the $200 million Pentagon contract. Allow unrestricted military use "for
AI Safety
Hank Green's 18 AI Fears, Charted
Hank Green listed 18 AI fears in 45 minutes. We plotted them on a risk matrix. Thirteen of them turned out to be the same fear.
AGI
The Race to AGI
Why governments and corporations are racing toward AGI like their future depends on it
AI Safety
Identity Drift Monitor: Week of February 25, 2026
An AI agent is only as trustworthy as the instructions governing it. This is our first public identity drift report.