{"id":243474,"date":"2026-05-11T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/heres-why-ai-safety-is-so-difficult\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:30:11","slug":"heres-why-ai-safety-is-so-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/heres-why-ai-safety-is-so-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s why AI safety is so difficult"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s why AI safety is so difficult<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/heres-why-ai-safety-is-so-difficult-wmnf-news\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-11 05:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Is it possible to keep AI from causing harm?
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Ahmed Hamza, University of Colorado Boulder<\/span><\/p>\n

The Trump administration is looking to develop a process that would have the federal government review the safety of powerful artificial intelligence models before approving their release, according to a report in The New York Times on May 4, 2026. The move would stand in contrast to the administration\u2019s generally anti-regulatory approach to industry and comes in the wake of Anthropic voluntarily postponing the release of its latest AI model, Mythos.<\/p>\n

Anthropic was concerned because when it tested Mythos, the model found thousands of vulnerabilities in operating systems and web browsers. The implication was that if a cybercriminal or hostile foreign agent had Mythos, they could penetrate computer systems worldwide and compromise the basic computer code underlying public safety, national economies and military security.<\/p>\n

As a result, Anthropic gave limited access only to about 50 companies and organizations managing critical infrastructure as part of its Project Glasswing. The initiative aims to help governments and corporations close software loopholes Mythos has identified. When Anthropic sought to broaden the number of organizations with access to Mythos, the White House objected.<\/p>\n

Security experts, meanwhile, have expressed concern that AI researchers in nations such as China, Russia, Iran and North Korea might soon create similarly powerful AI models and use them to threaten or attack other countries, or to create chaos in those countries\u2019 economies.<\/p>\n

Major challenges<\/h2>\n

As a computer scientist in this area, my work on computer security and malware shows it\u2019s difficult to even define what safety measures the field should take to make models safe to use. Yet the future of many industries, critical infrastructure, national security and human well-being seems to depend…<\/p>\n

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