George Hopkin

The rhyming 'master key' that breaks AI safety

Researchers discover that “adversarial poetry” acts as a universal master key to defeat AI safety filters.

Dec 1 • George Hopkin

November 2025

Good news: Reality is real. Bad news: AIs need exorcists

State-of-the-art AI tasked with household chores experiences an existential meltdown and demands an exorcism protocol.

Nov 3 • George Hopkin

October 2025

Guns drawn for crisps signals AI's unpredictable impact

An AI gun detection system mistakes a student's bag of crisps for a weapon, leading to police drawing guns. Meanwhile, a Bryan Cranston deepfake forces…

Oct 27 • George Hopkin

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When information vanishes and satellites whisper secrets

Wikipedia loses 8% of traffic as AI search reshapes information discovery, whilst classified SpaceX satellites broadcast mysterious signals on forbidden…

Oct 20 • George Hopkin

September 2025

The real AI threat isn't one rogue system

Leading researcher warns the fixation on AGI misses the real emerging threat: networks of AI models colluding in unpredictable ways.

Sep 29 • George Hopkin

Robot fights & AI data centres...in space

TL;DR: Big Tech dreams of launching data centres into space to solve energy crises, while San Francisco hosts underground robot fight clubs as AI…

Sep 22 • George Hopkin

God's in the machine & love in the code

TL;DR: Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance as "faith tech" apps rocket to the top of app stores, while women openly declare love for…

Sep 15 • George Hopkin

AI assistants plot smartphone takeover

AI assistants prepare to make smartphone apps obsolete as they take direct control of our devices, while OpenAI unveils plans for its own chips and a…

Sep 8 • George Hopkin

August 2025

A time when machines feel and humans flee

Polling released in June found that 30% of the US public believes that by 2034 AIs will display "subjective experience".

Aug 26 • George Hopkin

July 2025

Is AI making you lazy and productive?

AI productivity gains are making us cognitively lazy as we lose motivation to fact-check increasingly accurate outputs, while conservatives launch…

Jul 28 • George Hopkin

AI music means we’re all punks now

AI bands like The Velvet Sundown represent "the early tremors of a cultural earthquake".

Jul 21 • George Hopkin

The Velvet Sundown and how AI audio anarchy created a planet of the punks

AI bands like The Velvet Sundown represent the early tremors of a cultural earthquake; a Skynet of the arts, if you will, or autocomplete for emotions…

Jul 16 • George Hopkin