News roundup: safety resignations and OpenAI changes

In episode 89 of The AI Fix, Mark discovers that overconfident reasoning models are easily bullied, while guest host Greg explains what a 'vibe' password is and why you should never ever use one.

Also in this episode, Microsoft saves the world; Anthropic's head of AI safety quits to write poetry; Greg learns why Japanese toilets feel so solid; and Mark offers tourism advice to a small town in Tasmania.

Episode links:

• Anthropic AI's safety lead quits with epic vaguepost claiming 'the world is in peril' and so he's off to become invisible and study poetry.
• OpenAI disbands mission alignment team which focused on safe and trustworthy AI development.
• Japanese toilet maker 'the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary'.
• Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman confirms AI self-sufficiency push away from OpenAI.
• Tasmania hot springs that don't exist.
• Vibe Password Generation.
• Consistency of Large Reasoning Models Under Multi-Turn Attacks.

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