Hayden Field

Senior AI Reporter

Hayden Field is the senior AI reporter at The Verge, where she leads coverage of the biggest names in AI — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and others — while also reporting on how these tools are being used, their societal implications, and how regulators are responding. Prior to The Verge, Field was the AI beat reporter at CNBC, where she covered the industry’s shifting power dynamics, employee concerns within AI giants like Google, Amazon and OpenAI, Sam Altman’s ouster, FTC inquiries into top tech companies, and the AI arms race at large. Signal: haydenfield.11

The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

It’s AI CEO against AI CEO, and things are changing by the day.

Hayden FieldSep 19

Hayden FieldSep 18

More than 100 AI industry experts wrote a letter calling for independent evaluation of frontier models.

Academics, evaluators, and AI leaders signed a public letter calling not just for embedded third-party evaluators at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, but for conditions that allowed for transparency by those evaluators, like “limiting the scope of non-disclosure agreements.” I wrote an in-depth feature about the battle over the need for embedded evaluators this week for The Verge.

Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety

Hayden Field

Sep 17

Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety

Researchers warned AI would go rogue. This is only the beginning.

Hayden FieldSep 17

Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

Major AI companies want to ‘pace the frontier’ — but their proposed solutions need real teeth.

Hayden FieldSep 14

Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity

An Anthropic researcher’s resignation letter went viral, and the company released details of four concerning cybersecurity incidents.

Hayden FieldSep 11

Hayden FieldSep 8

The DoD reportedly asked OpenAI to provide military AI that rarely declined to cooperate.

The Intercept, citing documents it had seen, reported that the Pentagon requested a custom version of OpenAI’s technology with “minimal refusal rates” for military commands. OpenAI denied ever having signed a contract with such phrasing.

The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No

[The Intercept]