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What’s happening:
😰 Meta’s AI is profiling your friends and family
🧠 Trump launches Super Intelligence Force
🚪 OpenAI safety lead quits over “broken” culture
🙏 Anthropic seeks religious guidance for Claude
👀 Sam Altman says society should accept some AI risks
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😰 Meta’s AI is profiling your friends ↗️LINK
Meta’s new Muse AI assistant can book tickets, sell items, and handle other tasks, but it also builds detailed profiles of people in users’ personal networks, raising fresh privacy concerns.
Muse encourages users to share sensitive information including emails, banking details, and passport data, while critics warn that combining those records with relationship profiles could expand surveillance and misuse risks.
Meta already patched a serious vulnerability discovered during Muse’s early rollout, making the trade-off hard to ignore: smarter assistants become more useful as they learn increasingly personal details.
🚪 OpenAI safety lead quits over “broken” culture ↗️LINK
David Robinson quit OpenAI after 3.5 years and announced his exit in The Atlantic, calling the company's culture "broken." By his account, he oversaw safety reports for 12 frontier launches and drafted its Preparedness Framework.
Robinson argues AI labs should run like nuclear plants and airports, with layers of redundancy against human error. Instead, he says his team sprinted so hard they rarely had time to consider big changes.
Robinson's exit follows OpenAI cutting three safety staffers it says mishandled sensitive information. Back in 2024, departing safety co-lead Jan Leike warned safety had taken a backseat to shiny products. Same alarm, new messenger.
🙏 Anthropic seeks religious guidance for Claude ↗️LINK
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spent the past year consulting religious scholars from multiple faiths, asking them to examine Claude’s possible consciousness and help shape its morals, according to The New York Times.
Scholars joined NDA-bound seminars around Anthropic’s 84-page “Soul Doc,” while Olah also discussed AI consciousness with Pope Leo XIV, reportedly objecting when a papal letter dismissed the possibility.
The split is getting unusually philosophical: Pope Leo says algorithms lack humanity’s “spark,” while Sam Altman warns against giving AI religious force and Anthropic keeps exploring whether Claude might deserve moral consideration.
🧠 Trump launches Super Intelligence Force ↗️LINK
President Trump announced a new Super Intelligence Force on Truth Social to coordinate federal AI efforts. The Wall Street Journal reports that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton will chair it.
The name follows Trump's executive order directing federal agencies to swap "AI" for "Super Intelligence" in official documents. Trump also promised an AI Force and czar, and later praised Clayton for the role.
Its charter reportedly pairs SI threat planning with preventing overregulation, and Clayton told the WSJ one of the biggest risks is "not being first." Safety made the agenda, but so did speed.
👀 Sam Altman says society should accept some AI risks ↗️LINK
In an interview with Politico's new Decoded newsletter, Sam Altman said people should tolerate "some bad things" from AI, like hacks and scams, because, he argued, the benefits outweigh those harms.
Altman draws the line at extreme risks like losing control of AI. He also rejected the idea of one lab holding the technology and sharing its gains, a view Anthropic says covers only frontier models.
Three weeks ago, Altman backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to pace the frontier and pledged outside evaluators employee-like access. Agreeing on oversight, it turns out, isn't the same as agreeing on rules.

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