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AI Alignment news

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Getting a model to do what was intended: interpretability, reward modelling, oversight, deception and specification. Mostly preprints, which are not peer reviewed.

  • Reported incident Incidents
    AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise

    As early as September 2026, Storm-0940, a China-state aligned actor, used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to automate attacks targeting hundreds of organizations globally across...

    AI Incident Database AI Incident Database Responsible AI Collaborative Licence ODbL-1.0 Updated continuous Retrieved , today ODbL share-alike: we display incident headlines with a link back, which is display, and must NOT publish a derived database dump without licensing it alike. Incidents are reported, not sampled, so coverage reflects media attention rather than incidence, and an absence of incidents in a country usually means an absence of reporting. Cite Responsible AI Collaborative, "AI Incident Database". https://incidentdatabase.ai/research/snapshots/. Retrieved 28 October 2026 via AI Safety Tracker, https://aisafetytracker.org/news/alignment/.

  • Reported incident Incidents
    Chinese-linked hackers compromise ConnectWise, target hundreds in global attack, Microsoft says

    Oct 21 (Reuters) - A Chinese state-aligned hacking group used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise as part of a campaign that targeted hundreds of...

    AI Incident Database AI Incident Database Responsible AI Collaborative Licence ODbL-1.0 Updated continuous Retrieved , today ODbL share-alike: we display incident headlines with a link back, which is display, and must NOT publish a derived database dump without licensing it alike. Incidents are reported, not sampled, so coverage reflects media attention rather than incidence, and an absence of incidents in a country usually means an absence of reporting. Cite Responsible AI Collaborative, "AI Incident Database". https://incidentdatabase.ai/research/snapshots/. Retrieved 28 October 2026 via AI Safety Tracker, https://aisafetytracker.org/news/alignment/.

Categories are assigned by keyword rule over the headline and the extract, never over full text, and an item can carry several. The terms that matched are printed under each item so the filing can be checked rather than trusted. The rule is in etl/fetch_news.py and is a blunt instrument: it will miss things and it will occasionally file something oddly.