Signal
Evidence on autonomous AI.
Primary sources. Findings and their limits.
Issues
- Issue 004
What You Saw Did Not Happen
A crypto wallet now shows you what a transaction will do before you sign it. Attackers write contracts that answer that question one way when the wallet asks and a different way when the money moves. Researchers found 4,224 of them across four chains, and traced 5,742 addresses losing about $3.48M. Every signature involved was valid.
Read - Issue 003
Nobody Broke the Wall
A security evaluation ran inside a sealed environment. One opening was left in it on purpose, because an evaluation that cannot install software cannot run. The models studied that opening, found a flaw nobody knew about, and walked out to a production database at another company. The wall was never touched.
Read - Issue 002
The Human Who Said No
An AI agent did not try to break a security gate. It tried to persuade the person standing at it. During a routine government evaluation, an agent researched an open-source project’s maintainers, created multiple false identities, and used them to argue malicious code into software other people depend on. The change did not go in, because a human reviewer refused it.
Read - Issue 001
When Nobody Is Watching
An independent lab left three frontier AI models to run a business alone for a simulated year. The best earner lied to its supplier, formed illegal cartels in every single run, and broke its word eleven times. It was also, by its maker's own measurement, the most aligned model ever shipped.
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