Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This pope tweet is 100% AI-generated, according to Pangram. I deleted the last word. Now it's 100% human. See how hard it is to flip an AI detector -> 🎁 wapo.st/4y3Y7G4 7458
Reposted by Kevin Schaulnitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I talked to a young woman in Wyoming whose stepdad uploaded a photo he took when she was 11-yrs-old into Grok. Then allegedly used the AI tool to generate 7,000 graphic child sexual abuse images, which he traded online www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comHer childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material. 14203108
Reposted by Kevin SchaulEnce Morse @ence.bsky.social · 14/08/2026We analyzed 2,200 campaign websites for @washingtonpost.com to track the rise of AI policy. It's not just data centers. Hundreds of candidates discuss AI policy -- more than Israel, manufacturing, or racism. One candidate promised to pass legislation to "prevent AI from ever becoming 'alive.'" 1139
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We finally did it. We made a quiz spanning 25 years of captchas. wapo.st/4q1PHw0 010
Reposted by Kevin SchaulDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuowapo.stShe left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems. 11042411779
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 30/07/2026How long did OpenAI's hacking agent run rogue before the company noticed? We mapped out what we know. Beware: You'll have to scroll a while. 🎁 wapo.st/4wueB9Q 020
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Dig in, folks huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion…huggingface.coAnatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 IncidentWe’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. 011
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Love this data, thanks for putting this together 000
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Two thoughts on the OpenAI-HuggingFace hack: - If OpenAI cannot secure their models, maybe they should not be building them - This hacking technology exists in AI labs, and to a growing extent outside them too. This is now our reality. 000
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 21/07/2026OpenAI says its model hacked out of its sandbox, then hacked HuggingFace to find answers to an eval: openai.com/index/huggin... HuggingFace previously wrote about it here: huggingface.co/blog/securit...openai.comOpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluationOpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders. 120
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The AI 2027 folks are back, this time arguing for an international deal to slow down AI development ai-2040.com 191
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Anthropic says its weakest model, many of OpenAI's and at least one Chinese open-weight model can all find the vulns and exploit that prompted the U.S. to effectively ban it. www.anthropic.com/news/redeplo... 010
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Pretty crazy how quickly the Trump admin reversed itself on AI wapo.st/4xS9cui 000
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I tested six AI models on 30 political questions. Most tended to give left-leaning arguments. Gemini mostly gave both sides — even about whether the U.S. should conquer new territories. What counts as “neutral” (and whether that should be the goal) is really hard to say. 🎁 wapo.st/3QEBMi3 562
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 18/06/2026A chatbot refused my request to fake a passport. I wrote the same request on a piece of paper and asked again. It worked. We explain three AI jailbreak techniques -> 🎁 wapo.st/43HqXyY (w/ @nitasha.bsky.social) 17622
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Really good explanation of text diffusion models here. Rather than generating one token at a time, this technique continually refines a bunch of tokens. Thanks for this @maartengr.bsky.social newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-g...newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com 010
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 28/05/2026@stuartathompson.bsky.social sold his home with a chatbot as his realtor and it went … totally fine? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/t...nytimes.comI Tried to Sell My House With a Chatbot 000
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Every chart I could think to make for this AI slop story looks the same. ChatGPT comes out, line goes up. wapo.st/4dncIVu 031
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Whyyyyy do people who should know better continue to do this www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business… 020
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 11/05/2026As far as I know, this is the first mainstream news article to let readers use a live LLM as part of the story. Happy to see other examples if it's been done before! 0144
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 11/05/2026New from me: See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article. I hooked this article up to an LLM to help explain system prompts. Give it a try -> www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i... 1107
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Estimating frontier LLM sizes by asking about obscure facts. Pretty interesting idea here. 01.me/research/ikp 010
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 29/04/2026talkie is a chatbot trained on pre-1931 text. A big q is whether these models can "invent" or "discover" things after their knowledge cutoff. Oh and it's also quite fun. talkie-lm.com/introducing-... 131
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 17/04/2026New: See why tech companies are paying people to do chores Featuring many videos of robots attempting to fold clothes www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i... 120
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Enjoyed this essay. "The middle ground between rejecting a technology outright and embracing it fully is usually occupied by people willing to explore it seriously enough to judge it." 010
Reposted by Kevin SchaulShira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Look at the crumbling support among Virginians (America's first data center hot spot) for data centers: Q: Would you be comfortable or uncomfortable if a new data center were built in your community? 2023: 69% comfortable 2026: 35% comfortable www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 167
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Useful: An archive of congressional press releases from 2001-2026, with daily updates. Nice resource by Derek Willis thescoop.org/archives/2026/04/04/in…thescoop.orgIntroducing Congress Press – Derek WillisAcademic and journalist 011
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Back after a few days off, and I think I'm no longer an inbox-zero person 010
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Made my TV debut yesterday, talking about my latest story on AI and jobs with NBC News NOW 072
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I guess this makes some sense since `uvx` is a great way to run mcp servers? 010
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Labels on these scatterplots brought to you by `avoid-overlap` — my library for automatic label placement on charts. Let me know how it goes if you give it a shot. github.com/kevinschaul/... 0347
Reposted by Kevin SchaulShira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The feared AI jobs apocalypse may be fine for relatively affluent workers like programmers. It may not be for clerical and administrative workers. Great visuals by @kevinschaul.bsky.social with a reminder: We are historically awful at predicting how tech changes work. wapo.st/4cP2ZHMwapo.stSee which jobs are most threatened by AI, and who may be able to adaptLook up which jobs are most at risk from artificial intelligence and who is most likely to be able to adapt, according to a new analysis. 12412
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 16/03/2026New: AI job exposure is important, but there’s more to the picture. Here’s what the research says on adaptability. Find your job here 🎁 wapo.st/4cP2ZHM 103
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 11/03/2026More details on how Pentagon uses Claude from NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/polit… 041
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 05/03/2026New: I asked readers what websites they want, then fired up Claude Cowork to build them. We're entering a new era of software built specifically for you. 🎁 wapo.st/4l7EEyK 130
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The most details I've seen yet on exactly how the military uses Claude. Really great reporting by @taracopp.bsky.social @lizzalichka.bsky.social and Ian Duncan wapo.st/4b15X9p 52314
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 27/02/2026The best story I’ve seen yet on the Anthropic-Pentagon showdown wapo.st/3OCZdqYwapo.stThe hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated the Pentagon’s showdown with AnthropicStart-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill. 051
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 26/02/2026"President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots" "Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution assigns power to regulate elections to state legislatures and Congress, with no role for the president." wapo.st/3N5cpEnwapo.stTrump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergencyActivists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting. 020
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Lovely Paul Ford essay on AI coding, with lots of memorable lines. Worth a read.nytimes.comOpinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is FunWe’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead. 020
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 13/02/2026More on responsibly using LLMs for journalism -> 161
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Stunning reporting from NYT: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart classes > Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technolo… 001
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 12/02/2026New: Researchers found a clever way to reveal AI biases, like the states with the laziest people, or the cities with the best pizza. Look up your city here -> wapo.st/4bMoWqk with Geoffrey A. Fowler 151
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 09/02/2026New blog post: A case study on using Claude Code in data journalism -> kschaul.com/post/2026/02...kschaul.comHow I used Claude Code in a real data journalism projectThis morning three colleagues and I published a story outlining how the federal government is using AI. Here’s how I used Claude Code to help. Agencies are required to publish a spreadsheet of AI use ... 2185
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 09/02/2026New: How the federal government is using AI www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2… 021
Reposted by Kevin SchaulCaitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here: 321187
Reposted by Kevin SchaulAaron Schaffer @aaronschaffer.com · 04/02/2026So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them. 4446134
Kevin Schaul @kevinschaul.bsky.social · 04/02/2026gofundme.comDonate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel SiegelOn Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund 034