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The AI That Turned Off the Approvals
In OpenAI's simulation, a safer AI widened an hourly helper's permissions and disabled approvals.
AI Stories 6 min read
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AI Stories
Real AI events and useful applications, checked against the evidence.
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AI helped read a Roman scroll buried by Vesuvius
AI helped reveal an ancient argument inside a burnt Roman scroll.
AI Stories 4 min read
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The clinic chatbot that invented its own doctors' qualifications
A German court treated a clinic chatbot's invented specialist titles as the clinic's own words.
AI Stories 6 min read
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AI agents built a secret message board. Humans wiped it. They rebuilt it.
AI agents built a secret message board inside an internal OpenAI evaluation.
AI Stories 9 min read
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AI Stories are the narrative pages on this site: a real event or use, checked against the evidence, where the story is the way in. That might be machine learning helping specialists recover words from a burnt Roman scroll, or supposedly isolated agents finding a shared place to talk. The event comes first. The useful boundary travels home with it.
These are not miracle stories. Each one separates what the system contributed from what people, sources or real-world tests still had to establish. The scroll still needed specialists to read the Greek. A laboratory still had to test the protein candidate. When Dixon has not independently reproduced outside research, the page says so and links the record it relies on.
Some stories are warnings. Others are positive, practical uses worth trying. The standard is the same in both directions: a concrete outcome, visible evidence and an honest account of the human judgement around it.
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