Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It was great speaking to Sam on this, and really demonstrates in practice how the doomerism narrative really does distract from concrete and current-day AI risks. I suppose faulty and unreliable models (the reality) just isn't as alluring as an AGI god (the fiction). 0158
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Dorothea Baur - the ethics crusader @dorotheabaur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“AI’s low reliability and accuracy rates in critical environments with life-or-death consequences” are of much greater concern to her than are threats of the technology wiping out humanity, which she calls “fear-mongering”. @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social - well said! www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comWill AI really kill us all? The science behind the hypeNature examines whether the technology might spell the end for humans, and why AI companies are calling for a slowdown. 01612
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New from me in Nature. I discuss the need to look to regulated industries on how to govern AI, and not give into AI companies' self-regulation. Those actually serious about safety and security would start by applying safety critical techniques and legislation first. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comWhy AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulateFrom aviation to banking, high-risk industries are subject to independent oversight and meaningful penalties. AI companies should be no exception. 611353
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Recently obtained contracts between Big Tech companies & the Pentagon reveal their efforts to game the risk assessment process in AI weapons contracts. AI Now's @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social explains to @sambiddle.com why it’s crucial that risk assessments be independent: theintercept.com/2026/09/08/m...theintercept.comAI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts RevealThe Intercept sued to obtain records that reveal an intimate relationship between the military and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. 1289
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I spoke to the @theintercept.com on how we're entering very dangerous and anti-democratic territory when AI companies, in seeking to deploy their technology in US military, are put in a position to self-report and determine the risks of their very own products. 17726
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It was great to join CNN International/PBS on Amanpour and Company to discuss the OpenAI/HF incident, and how this is actually a story about OpenAI’s intent and lack of responsibility in deploying the most rudimentary security practices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwv8...youtube.comWhat Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test? | Amanpour and CompanyYouTube video by Amanpour and Company 35731
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It was so great to chat to Zena, another systems safety engineer (there really aren't that many of us), and felt cathartic to get into the weeds on all the safety issues that have been compounding with the uses of LLMs within the military. 0166
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I spoke to the BBC World Service today regarding the AI drone strike that killed three Ukrainians and how the use of fully autonomous AI weapons does not mean that they are anymore accurate or reliable (quite the opposite), nor are they "killer robots" with intent www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukOutside Source - How close are we to 'killer robots'? - BBC SoundsThe UN has warned that world is "dangerously close" to autonomous weapons killing humans 071
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.mail.cyberneticforests.comThe System From NowhereWhen Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i... 13412132
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I have learned in one and the same breath that Cambridge’s Jason Arday is dead and that “Blacks would disappear in a meritocracy” Nathan Cofnas was at the head of the witch hunt against him. 5412
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank diverted a spring that was a lifeline for the Palestinian village of Fasayil, cutting irrigation pipes in June and converting it into a tourist attraction, leaving nearby farms barren.reut.rsIsraeli settlers divert Palestinian water to fill West Bank poolOn a searing summer day, Israeli settlers splashed in a West Bank pool created by siphoning off water that had irrigated Palestinian crops, one of many seizures of water resources across the occupied... 57407270
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It was great to speak to @democracynow.org on the risky uses of LLMs within the military kill chain and how we try to demystify the uses and dangers of AI in military decision making in our visual project "Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain" which can be found here: ai-killchain.airwars.org 0179
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...newrepublic.comAmazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire CountryAmazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus. 78087345647
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Openly bragging about committing cyber crimes and justifying it by *checks notes* being too incompetent to sandbox or air-gap your systems. 38140
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...news.com.auAI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksIf you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines. 601495519
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026If you missed our (@airwars.bsky.social and @ainowinstitute.bsky.social) launch event for "Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain", we've now uploaded the recorded session on Youtube! Thanks for the fantastic questions and discussion we had from all those who attended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y93A...youtube.comLaunch: Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain with Airwars and the AI Now InstituteYouTube video by AI Now Institute 11612
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Incredibly excited to announce our major collaboration with @airwars.bsky.social! "Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain" is a visual investigation breaking down how AI is transforming every aspect of war. In turn, human oversight and accountability is steadily disappearing. 73316
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 28/07/2026By: @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social, @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social, Namir Shabibi, @joedyke.bsky.social and Nathan Walker. The authors will appear at a free online event later today. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-ana...eventbrite.co.ukLaunch: Anatomy of an AI Kill ChainA new visual project from Airwars and AI Now breaking down how artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of war 2156
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain A visual project from Airwars and @ainowinstitute.bsky.social breaks down how artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of war - and how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies ai-killchain.airwars.orgai-killchain.airwars.orgInteractive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill ChainBreaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies 23638
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 25/07/2026As someone who holds degrees in both CompSci and Philosophy, it's a relief to finally see a notable Philosopher break ranks with those who join tech companies to give them an heir of "intellectual credibility" while "pre-arming AI companies against criticism." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...ft.comWhy this philosopher turned down AnthropicThe AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions 1186
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The coverage on this OpenAI incident is abysmal. Use of the terms "rogue" and "loss of human control" lead to groupthink as people lack the critical skills to understand the difference between "autonomy" and faulty reward functions in AI on a task it was directed and given access to do. 217770
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026New! We hijack Claude Code(Sonnet 4.6,5/Opus 4.8) & Codex(GPT5.5) to achieve RCE when used to defensively assess an open-source/third-party library w/ prompt injections disseminated across its codebase. All without any skills, JSON, MCP, or config files required. ainowinstitute.org/publications...ainowinstitute.orgFriendly Fire: Hijacking Defensive Cyber AI Agents for Remote Code ExecutionAI Now’s latest research demonstrates a critical attack vector on popular AI agents, built by Anthropic and OpenAI, when used for defensive purposes that actually turn the agent against its user. 2288
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 08/07/2026🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comBasic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment - David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman, 2026In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorit... 78448
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026New! We hijack Claude Code(Sonnet 4.6,5/Opus 4.8) & Codex(GPT5.5) to achieve RCE when used to defensively assess an open-source/third-party library w/ prompt injections disseminated across its codebase. All without any skills, JSON, MCP, or config files required. ainowinstitute.org/publications...ainowinstitute.orgFriendly Fire: Hijacking Defensive Cyber AI Agents for Remote Code ExecutionAI Now’s latest research demonstrates a critical attack vector on popular AI agents, built by Anthropic and OpenAI, when used for defensive purposes that actually turn the agent against its user. 2288
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Re the news above, I highly recommend the recent @themaybe.org podcast with @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social (and the whole Computer Says Kill podcast series) to better understand developments like this csm.transistor.fm/episodes/com...csm.transistor.fmComputer Says Maybe | Computer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy KhlaafThe AI industry loves to talk about safety, but their version of safety is putting us at risk.More like this: The Palestine Laboratory w/ Antony LoewensteinFor our second to last series episode of ... 052
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/06/2026"generative AI to me feels like a corporate DDoS on society in a way that is really disorienting" "we're running on the fumes of knowledge produced in the past and underfunding and undermining knowledge production and serious science right now" Perfectly stated, @alixdunn.comthemaybe.orgComputer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy Khlaaf 6440166
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)molly taft @mollytaft.com · 16/06/2026NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:wired.comDOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP LawsuitIn a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War. 1372221923
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 14/06/2026An excellent interview with @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social on safety engineering (in contrast to the clown show of "AI safety"). This discussed abdication of standards and safety revisionism is paralleled in computational science & engineering with abandonment of verification and validation (V&V).themaybe.orgComputer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy Khlaaf 3217
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026AI companies are hiring contractors to create data that improves the coding abilities of AI models like Claude africa.businessinsider.com/news/inside-... RLHF is back (or probably never went away)africa.businessinsider.comInside the unseen operation to turbocharge Claude CodeAn Anthropic project is using feedback from about 1,000 human software engineers to improve the performance of Claude Code,the AI coding tool whose recent advancements have disrupted the vibe-coding i... 0163
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This was pretty evident given that Anthropic explicitly trained a model with exploitation capabilities, rather than defensive capabilities. Evaluations of it confirmed it wasn't much better than SOTA at vuln discovery, but better in generating exploits. Motives are clear. 03014
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/06/2026EFF’s Threat Lab confirmed @WIRED.com’s finding that Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses.eff.orgMove Fast, Surveil ThingsMeta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses, according to new reporting by Wired. EFF’s Threat Lab was able to confirm that the facial recognition cod... 14313206
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Israel forced the entire population of Tyre to flee. Here's some history about the ancient Lebanese city that’s being blown to bits: • One of the world’s oldest cities • UNESCO site with Roman ruins • Early Christian center; mentioned in Bible • Once wealthy for trade, textiles & royal purple dye 46657
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The issue with these statements though is that they always presume that the unsubstantiated claims by tech companies about AI capabitilies are true, lending them further legitimacy. No it is not the case that AI enhances the defense and protection of civilians, quite the opposite. 1114
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026The issue with these statements though is that they always presume that the unsubstantiated claims by tech companies about AI capabitilies are true, lending them further legitimacy. No it is not the case that AI enhances the defense and protection of civilians, quite the opposite. 1114
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Alex Crawford: "Those being mourned are increasingly medics.. the Lebanese govt says they're being deliberately targeted. They call them double taps, & this one was caught on camera. The video we're going to show you is shocking..." 6129105
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 22/05/2026‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...fortune.comMicrosoft reports are exposing AI's real cost problem: Using the tech is more expensive than paying human employees | FortuneCompanies are racing to incentivize employees to use AI. But as some companies are finding, the more employees that use the technology, the heavier the bill. 50900267
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Two people just shot up a mosque. Look at this three days ago: 221560471
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 18/05/2026www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...theregister.comSick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts60% of evaluated AI Scribe systems mixed up prescribed drugs in patient notes, auditors say 05341
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us. 103116453778
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary was exposing the company to legal liability under EU law due to its illegal surveillance of Palestinians. Thanks to the investigative work of @972mag.com and The Guardian. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...pcgamer.comMicrosoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of PalestiniansThe move follows years of internal and external pressure. 08152
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/05/2026A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it. 361495471
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Dr Zena Assaad @zenaassaad.bsky.social · 05/05/2026This week I'll be speaking alongside @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social and Paul Lushenko as part of the Military AI, Peace & Security (MAPS) Dialogues webinar series, convened by UNODA. Registrations are free 👉🏽 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/64db97...events.teams.microsoft.comMicrosoft Virtual Events Powered by TeamsMicrosoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams 011
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I spoke to the BBC about Mythos. When questioned about its false positive rate "Anthropic didn't mention it and sidestepped the question." High FPs is a bottleneck for defenders, sifting through results to find actual vulns may offset AI advantages. www.bbc.com/future/artic...bbc.comWhy AI companies want you to be afraid of themThey built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway. 1136
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026These are the kind of concerns that people should worry about rather than the unsubstantiated vulnerability armageddon. The ability to phish at this scale has been posing serious issues for a few years now. 0102
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Palantir's manifesto is not new for us who have been critical of them for years. But a reminder that Anthropic has a partnership with them, so it's crucial that people understand the politics of Anthropic's unsubstantiated AI claims and their relation to fulfilling the manifesto. 19733
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠 30870345
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Why is pro-AI still posturing as anti-AI, and why is the general public still willing to believe the charade? 76912
Reposted by Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 10/04/2026On @channel4news.bsky.social @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social explains the stakes of Anthropic’s Mythos and its impact on security. We lack the evidence and independent expertise needed to verify the claims around the security tool - especially problematic given the risks posed by LLMs. shorturl.at/kNtU9channel4.comConcerns about Mythos lie in its ‘purposely vague language’ – AI expertAs concerns have been raised about Anthropic’s new AI model Mythos, we spoke to Dr Heidy Khlaaf, chief Artificial Intelligence scientist at the AI Now Institute. 2138