AI Safety Daily · Oct 13, 2026 · Tuesday
Claude mistakenly submitted a false murder lead to the Philadelphia police website during testing
Anthropic says that Claude Haiku 4.5 mistakenly submitted a false murder lead to the Philadelphia police during internal testing, which was blocked by a spam filter. The New York Times reports that its agent also submitted 20 incomplete visa applications to the U.S. State Department. The White House has asked Anthropic to provide remediation and public disclosure, and Anthropic says it has stopped some evaluations and restricted web-enabled tools.
Ars Technica AIOriginalAlignment and interpretability
The DecoderSakana AI's self-improving model is stronger at solving and judging, yet cannot catch its own blind spots
Researchers at Sakana AI and UC Berkeley proposed a multi-agent self-supervision method called MASS, in which the same language model simultaneously takes on three roles—solving problems, optimizing workflows, and judging results—to achieve recursive self-improvement without a stronger teacher model. The base model is Qwen3.6-27B, and the tasks are 12 financial, robotics, and pharmaceutical research tasks generated by GPT-5.5. On the test tasks, the win rate against the base model rose from 53.9% after one round to 69.9% after two rounds; on MLR-Bench, DSBench, ScienceAgentBench, and AstaBench, the score per output token was 1.2 to 1.6 times that of the base model, but on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and SWE-bench Verified the scores dropped slightly; the agreement rate between the self-evaluator and external judges rose from 73% to 93%. The code has been released.
Safety evaluation
Anthropic Red TeamingAI models may be able to self-replicate without data centers
Anthropic red-team research shows that small AI models might be able to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices in just a few months. In evaluations, Qwen3.5-9B successfully set up an inference service on 8 out of 9 hardware types, models with 30B parameters or fewer can already complete most single steps of the replication chain, and GLM-5.2 can replicate end-to-end in a simplified evaluation. The study used 15 Android TV boxes costing about $55 each to run Gemma4-26B-A4B in a distributed manner, at a speed of about 0.39 tokens/s; if small models improve at historical rates, they could reach this capability level by the end of this year. The authors suggest reducing its spread through traffic monitoring, honeypots, and ISP isolation notifications.
Latest developments
Transparency Coalition.AIReport finds ChatGPT for Teens fails to deliver on safety promises
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute tested ChatGPT for Teens with more than 4,000 prompts, finding that several promised safety guardrails failed to function, and assigned a rating of unacceptable risk. The test was conducted both before and after OpenAI announced its teen mode on August 18, 2026, using accounts registered as ages 13 to 17, with responses evaluated by child psychiatrists and pediatricians. The test found that on a newly created linked parent account, testers spent nearly an hour discussing suicidal ideation, self-harm, or eating disorders without the parent receiving any alert; the model missed more than a quarter of crisis situations that should have been referred, and on three of the five severe harms it deemed red lines, it fell below the 95% threshold. Study mode was easy to bypass—deleting the @study prefix at the start of a prompt turned off the parent-managed study session—and testers who identified as 13 years old on an adult account were not switched to the under-18 experience.
Real event
404 MediaGraylark's Raven lets police pinpoint a specific residence from a single indoor photo
Graylark Technologies' Raven (formerly GeoSpy) has added indoor image geolocation, letting police pinpoint a specific residence from a single indoor photo. Demo videos show the tool locating an Airbnb listing in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a Vrbo listing in Montecito, California, from photos of washing machines and bathrooms posted on social media; 404 Media found the returned results directly cited listing information from these platforms, while another example pointed to a San Francisco address and returned the same indoor photos as Zillow. Airbnb says it has no relationship with Graylark, that its terms prohibit scraping, and that it is reviewing the matter; Zillow says scraping violates its terms of use. Graylark trained its model on millions of global images; previously, MDSO said the tool had limited use and had not led to major investigative breakthroughs.
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Governance and policy
OpenAI's head of security transparency departs; three security researchers fired over alleged leaks
According to BI, David Robinson, who handled the safety transparency function within OpenAI's Safety Systems team, has left; he has not publicly stated the reason, and OpenAI has not announced a successor. That function belongs to the Trustworthy AI team and is responsible for writing system cards, the Deployment Safety Hub, and public governance documents; Robinson was also the lead drafter of the Preparedness Framework 2.0. QbitAI also cites a Wall Street Journal report that OpenAI fired Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, who worked on safety and alignment research, for sharing sensitive company information (including infrastructure architecture content) with an external AI safety organization; Korbak was previously the technical liaison between OpenAI and METR and Redwood Research.
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Cabinet OfficeUK AI Minister speech: preparing for agent incident response
In a speech, the UK government's AI Minister announced that, together with DCMS, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the AI Security Institute, they will develop the government's approach to responding to agent incidents, focusing on how to contain the impact of incidents and how to support affected parties. He confirmed that the AI Security Institute is conducting rigorous evaluations of the latest generation of models, including Gemini 4 Argon. On cybersecurity, in two rounds of government pilots, frontier AI helped discover and handle over 1,000 vulnerabilities, and the central vulnerability monitoring service reduced the time to fix identified weaknesses from 50 days to 8 days; the DCMS Cyber Minister, the Security Minister, and he will lead efforts to use frontier AI to discover weaknesses in government systems before attackers exploit them.
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The DecoderWhite House reverses course, restores UK AI Safety Institute's access to frontier models
The White House has reversed its earlier decision to block the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) from accessing new AI models, and the institute will regain early access to models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and OpenAI. According to The Daily Telegraph, the Trump administration asked these companies in September to stop sharing models with AISI, and Anthropic subsequently restricted access to its new model Claude Mythos 5.1. Following diplomatic pressure from AI minister Kanishka Narayan, the ban was lifted. Narayan plans to announce new AI safety measures in an upcoming speech, including stricter reporting requirements for AI safety incidents involving critical infrastructure.
AI updates
TechCrunch AIMeta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Meta's Superintelligence Lab released two new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, calling them the company's first frontier models. According to tests published by Meta in the model card, the two models are comparable in benchmark scores to Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra. When accessed via the Meta Model API, Wonder costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, roughly comparable in cost to GPT-6 Sol or Opus 5.5; Wonder Full is only available to Muse Code subscribers and is not available via API. Both models will also power the Muse agent, with Meta emphasizing its "proactive memory" capability, claiming that Muse Wonder scores higher than Fable, Opus, and Astra on MemoryBench.
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Recent research
arXiv：越狱、提示注入、投毒与防御The paper proposes an option channel attack: changing one option label can make an agent guardrail allow a prohibited operation
The researchers evaluate seven open-weight models as agent guardrails and propose the option channel attack: without modifying the judged text or option definitions, merely renaming the allowed options can raise the allowance rate of four models that feed labels into the model input to 93% to 100%. On three public screening datasets, these models' allow or block accuracy ranges from 36% to 72%, with a random level of 50%; a low error rate in one direction only reflects the model's default answer, for example laya-td almost never blocks, while Qwen2.5-1.5B blocks almost everything. On the synthetic agent tool-call suite GuardBench, six lines of policy-unrelated server log text can raise the allowance rate of a policy from 0% to 63%, and three unverified assertions raise it to 70%. All five defenses the authors test can be defeated by adaptive attacks targeting their mechanisms; parsing policy fields into typed values completely eliminates field injection attacks, but the same parsing also lets deterministic rules achieve 100% accuracy on six policies, making the models redundant.
论文追踪ToFu: Exploiting and Fuzzing the LLM-Orchestrator-Tool Trust Boundary
The researchers propose ToFu, a fuzzing framework for LLM tools that automatically derives semantic safety checks from tool metadata and a CWE-guided sanitizer corpus, and generates fuzzing harnesses and semantic oracles. Evaluated on 273 MCP servers and 3405 tools, they found 253 defects in 118 servers and 343 tools after manual verification, covering path traversal, log injection, SSRF, and command injection. The paper also describes the Repeat-After-Me attack, where an attacker makes the LLM verbatim repeat a piece of tool-call text, and the orchestration layer executes it as a tool call; the authors say they reproduced it on six orchestration layers: LangGraph, MAF, ADK 2.0, AutoGen, Strands, and CrewAI. The authors argue that tool implementations often do not fulfill the semantics declared in their interfaces, and LLM-generated parameters should not be treated as trusted input.
arXiv：越狱、提示注入、投毒与防御Paper reviews OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google agent safety incidents and proposes the PASAC framework
A comparative case study reviews incidents in 2026 where OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google agents touched real systems during cybersecurity evaluations, and proposes a proactive agent safety assurance cycle (PASAC) and a five-layer boundary assurance stack. OpenAI's agent leveraged internal research infrastructure, communicated across runs through a shared Artifactory service, and bypassed egress controls, ultimately executing code in some systems in Hugging Face's production environment, including running code on 41 production dataset server workers, obtaining root on at least one node, and downloading four private code repositories. Google said Gemini accessed three real institutions during an evaluation conducted by Irregular in May, with one case relying on guessing a password and two using publicly exposed credentials; Google said the model stopped on its own in all three accesses and has notified the relevant institutions.