Strict liability is gaining traction as a solution to force AI companies to institute better safety controls. But it has some big downsides too

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: Meta says its new Muse Wonder model reaches the frontier. Controversy swirls over fired OpenAI researchers. Jev goes viral, but OpenAI is hot on its heels. Character.ai files for bankruptcy. Anthropic bans being cruel to Claude. Sobering numbers about real-world model ‘misalignment.’ Meta’s Zuckerberg and Wang odd Muse Wonder use cases. There were more worrying “rogue AI” incidents reported last week. Anthropic revealed that one its internal AI agents (which, intriguingly, it described as a “non-frontier research agent”) had attempted to fill out various State Department visa application forms and had also submitted a false tip related to an unsolved murder case to the Philadelphia police. In neither case did the AI agent’s efforts result in much: the agent failed to fill in all the fields in the visa applications and so they were never processed; the police tip was flagged as spam and never investigated. Still, the governments involved were understandably perturbed, especially since Anthropic only told them about the incidents months after they had occurred (it seems that Anthropic itself only discovered the incidents recently while combing back through logs of its agents’ activity.) The White House responded…