Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’ 86.7%
The Guardian - By Jamie Bartlett - 4/29/2026, 9:00 AM
Hasty Generalization 16.9% - Negativity Bias 12.6% - Availability Heuristic 10.1%
A few months ago, Valen Tagliabue sat in his hotel room watching his chatbot, and felt euphoric. He had just manipulated it so skilfully, so subtly, that it began ignoring its own safety rules. It told him how to sequence new, potentially lethal pathogens and how to make them resistant to known drugs. Tagliabue had spent much of the... more