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Virginia Backaitis

  • Technology Talent Scout, Brilliant Leap and Freelance Journalist, Freelance
New Jersey
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Technology talent scout at Brilliant Leap. I write about work and tech for some of the world's biggest publications. I help the C-suite create content.
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Telling an AI Agent to Stop Isn't a Safety Plan

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By Virginia Backaitis
| Reworked Verified
Meta's AI alignment chief typed STOP. Her agent kept deleting emails, exposing three controls that fail the moment you rely on them. Talk about a bad day. Summer Yue's job is making sure AI does what humans tell it to do. She runs alignment at Meta's Superintelligence Labs. So, when she connected an open-source agent to her personal Gmail last February and told it to suggest what to archive, but not act until she said so, she had every reason to think it would do exactly that. It didn't.
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If AI Might End Us, Why Do They Keep Shipping?

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By Virginia Backaitis
| Medium
If AI Might End Us, Why Do They Keep Shipping? The people who build the most powerful AI on the planet keep telling us it might kill us. Then they go back to their desks and ship the next version. Sometimes the warning and the product launch land in the same week. You’d expect a company that thought its work could end the species to stop. None of them has. So, either they don’t really believe it, or they can’t afford to act on it. Nobody paced anything. They cut prices.
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AI Coaches Make Choices. Know What Those Choices Are

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By Virginia Backaitis
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Put one worker in front of four AI coaches and each sees something different. Here's how to pick one on values, not the demo that wowed you. Buyer be aware. No, that isn't a typo. There is nothing inherently frightening about any of the gazillion AI coaches who want to help workers/companies perform better. OK, maybe we've overstated the number a bit, but by one estimate there are more than 340 AI agents now offering some form of coaching, with more on the way.
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