10 posts across Supervising Agents, Judging AI, Directing AI
Courts and regulators have settled this faster than most workplaces have: the organisation that deployed the tool owns what it did. Here's what that means for the person who pressed go.
6 min readNoma Labs found that one word placed in a public GitHub issue was enough to trick an AI agent into leaking private repositories. The same week, a fully autonomous AI ransomware operation completed an entire attack chain in 31 seconds. The risk isn't the AI — it's the permissions.
6 min readOpenAI's own safety guidance for ChatGPT Work admits the system can produce 'finished mistakes at a scale that is harder to catch.' The same week, Wharton research killed prompt tricks and Cursor data showed a 46x productivity gap. The differentiator is now verification, not prompting.
6 min readUnit 42 tested 685,339 prompts and found 2.1 million AI-generated URLs — 13,229 already live and malicious. In one case, researchers predicted which domain an AI would hallucinate. Twenty-three days later, an attacker registered it and deployed a phishing kit.
4 min readFigma's CEO Dylan Field told Stratechery that AI output 'draws from the middle of the distribution' — and that teams become viscerally attached to their first concept. The iterate-and-refine skill is what separates competent AI output from distinctive work.
4 min readFord rehired 350 engineers after AI quality inspection produced billions in costs. The same week, a Munich court ruled AI-generated false claims are the deploying organisation's own speech. The gap between 'the AI made an error' and 'you submitted it' is closing.
5 min readAI's most attractive use is work you couldn't do yourself — which is exactly where you can't assess the result. There are real checks available, and they're structural rather than technical.
6 min readA Derbyshire officer was removed from duty and placed under criminal investigation for allegedly using AI to fabricate evidential material — the UK's first criminal case of its kind. The failure mode that caused it appears in professional documents every week.
5 min readTwo South African officials were suspended after 102 of 148 citations in a Cabinet-approved report were AI-fabricated. Nature retracted a 504-citation paper on the same day. The accountability gap between 'AI wrote it' and 'I submitted it' is closing. Here's what you do about it.
4 min readSullivan & Cromwell apologized to a federal judge after a court filing contained 42 AI-generated errors: fabricated citations, misquoted statutes, authorities that don't exist. The opposing firm caught them. Here's what that means for anyone using AI for research, reports, or client-facing work.
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