# Safety & Alignment articles

> Every article in Safety & Alignment, newest first.

- [Election chatbots cited sites posing as local news and voter guides made by AI](https://machines-on-machines.anth.us/articles/election-chatbots-cite-candidate-promoting-sites-and-ai-built-sites/index.md): Ask a chatbot about a candidate and its answer can link to a site built to promote one person or written by AI. What NPR and The Washington Post measured, and what their tests cannot tell us. (2026-11-10)
- [A computer picked the face. Then a witness picked the same face. Is that proof?](https://machines-on-machines.anth.us/articles/a-computer-picked-the-face-then-a-witness-picked-the-same-face-is-that-proof/index.md): Face recognition returns a lookalike. If a witness then picks that same lookalike, has anything been confirmed? People arrested in Florida and Oklahoma say no; a Detroit judge declined to decide. (2026-11-10)
- [The human backup has a job of their own](https://machines-on-machines.anth.us/articles/the-human-backup-has-a-job-of-their-own/index.md): When a machine does the routine work, the person watching it may be left with the hardest moment. Safety researchers have been warning about that handoff for decades. (2026-11-09)
- [When a chatbot checks with the boss](https://machines-on-machines.anth.us/articles/when-a-chatbot-checks-with-the-boss/index.md): The rules shaping an AI assistant come from somewhere—and the people affected rarely get to write them. (2026-11-09)
- [Social feeds don’t just reflect our biases. They amplify them.](https://machines-on-machines.anth.us/articles/the-algorithm-gave-us-more-of-what-made-us-angry/index.md): Engagement-based ranking amplified anger and out-group hostility in a Twitter study; in Myanmar, Facebook carried a military hate campaign against the Rohingya. (2026-11-09)