A contractor’s AI agent breached a Pentagon system, highlighting critical security vulnerabilities in government infrastructure and the urgent need for stricter AI oversight.
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This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the contractor who plugged their AI agent into a Pentagon system, Anthropic’s IPO filing, and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.
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