Tracy Mumford
speaker
9,176 appearances
127 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard today
Tracy Mumford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 119 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 22.
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That included Russian state media asking the chatbot Claude to generate online propaganda.
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suspected Chinese and Iranian government-linked actors using AI tools to try and target dissidents, and attempts to use Claude to design missiles, drones, and bombs.
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In one of the most troubling examples, Anthropic said it blocked possible efforts to use AI to build biological weapons.
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The report detailed how people located in regions that were supposed to be blocked from using the tech got around safeguards.
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In one case...
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A scientist asked for Claude's help with a project that involved mutating chikungunya, the mosquito-borne virus, in a way that would make it more harmful.
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The caveat to all this is that Anthropic says it couldn't determine what the user's motives were.
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That's especially hard when it comes to things like biological research, because the same kind of work that can lead to breakthroughs like vaccines can also help engineer dangerous pathogens.
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Still, Anthropic said, it erred on the side of caution and blocked a number of accounts.
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because the consequences of not catching malicious activity could be so severe.
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My colleague Dustin Volz covers cybersecurity and intelligence for The Times.
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The Times has learned that the federal government is about to declare that this summer's big cyclospora outbreak is over, according to senior officials in the administration.
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The outbreak sickened a record number of people and had Americans throwing out their lettuce and saying no to salad for months.
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In all, more than 11,000 cases were definitively linked to iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms, one of the country's biggest produce companies, and thousands more cases were reported.
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By comparison, there were only roughly 1,200 cyclospora cases over the same period last year.
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Generally, the CDC deems a foodborne outbreak to be over when it determines that new illnesses are no longer being reported and that the product causing the issue has been cleared from shelves.
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And finally...
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Today, on the 25th anniversary of September 11th, theaters across the U.S.
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and around the world are putting on a musical called Come From Away, which has emerged as one of the most popular pieces of art reflecting on that day.
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Recently, it's been performed by more regional theaters in the U.S.
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