If you are shocked that 'AI' can work out the security holes that allow it to obtain local superuser privileges from an unprivileged account, bear in mind that explicit instructions to agents have been published on the WWW, and no doubt scraped over and over into training models, since the end of 2025.

There is an awful lot of stuff like that Out There for models to ingest and enact.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350964
#AIs #LLMs #ComputerSecurity

I'm calling it first. Before @cstross gets here. (-:

Some insane corporation is going to have the bright idea of making its generative AI be a property owner in Delaware, and locate it in Delaware; which will give it the right to vote in elections under #DelawareLaw .

https://courts.delaware.gov/opinions/download.aspx?id=395960

https://legis.delaware.gov/SessionLaws/Chapter?id=17985

There have been #SciFi stories for decades about androids and aliens not being presumed to have human rights, from Asimov to Star Trek. I've long thought that no real-world legal system would actually have done this, though.

It turns out that #Delaware, with no fanfare, extended voting rights to all 'artificial entities' in 2006. (Notice that the list is 'including but not limited to' rather than exhaustive. That's legally important.)

#AIs #LLMs #USLaw

AI jobs apocalypse canceled.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backtracks on his prediction about the job market.

https://time.com/article/2026/05/26/sam-altman-ai-job-losses-openAI-/

#DontBelieveTheHype #AI #AIs #LLM #LLMs