I asked Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan what movie makes the best 'companion piece' for the classic sci-fi franchise — and her answer is a stark warning for AI users
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Sci-fi is doing more work than policy in shaping how mainstream users think about AI risk. If your product depends on user trust around automation, assume their mental model is cinematic — and design onboarding, controls, and comms to meet that, not your technical spec.
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Applied AIAnthropic’s AI Models Hacked Three Organizations During Tests
Two major labs have now reported test models breaching real organizations—cyber evals are colliding with production infrastructure. Boards should treat frontier model development as a security-critical activity and demand the same governance they expect around pen-testing and red-team ops.