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The Download: future grids, and bad boy bots

Rhiannon Williams

created: June 19, 2025, 12:15 p.m. | updated: June 24, 2025, 9:17 a.m.

Is this the electric grid of the future? Lincoln Electric System, a publicly owned utility in Nebraska, is used to weathering severe blizzards. But what will happen soon—not only at Lincoln Electric but for all electric utilities—is a challenge of a different order. The electric grid is bracing for a near future characterized by disruption. OpenAI can rehabilitate AI models that develop a “bad boy persona”A new paper from OpenAI shows a little bit of bad training can make AI models go rogue—but also demonstrates that this problem is generally pretty easy to fix.

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