Quest Diagnostics hack exposes patient data; AI safety advocates ask why agent safeguards fail
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-23
- Quest Diagnostics, which serves roughly half of US hospitals and physicians, has been hacked with patient data exposed; an investigation is ongoing.
- Safety commentator @wfithian argues that despite massive AI safety investment in refusal training, criminals easily find agents aligned with malicious goals—and that the burden should be on builders of more powerful models to explain why the next generation will differ.
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