Issue #5 ·

Physical AI Safety Dispatch — October 2026

Illustration of a physical AI system in a factory
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A hacked chatbot says something wrong. A hacked physical AI moves.
This is the first monthly Dispatch to reach your inbox. From now on: one email, on the 1st of each month. October closed five weeks of counting toward the EU machinery deadline and opened a new series: cybersecurity as a safety problem. Here are the pieces worth your time. Reply with one word: which topic should the next issue go deeper on?
What five weeks of counting found
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Countdown · closer
What five weeks of counting found
39 notified bodies held a current notification on 13 September, against 144 under the old Directive. No harmonised standard is cited under the Regulation yet.
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The penalties deadline is 20 October. The official text still says 14 October.
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EU law · deadline
The penalties deadline the official text gets wrong
Member states had until 20 October to report their penalties. The most-linked official copy still prints 14 October.
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They talked the physical AI into it
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New series · part 2
They talked the physical AI into it
Researchers jailbroke three AI-driven systems, 35 out of 35 tries each. One was a commercial robot dog.
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During the attack: who reaches the safe state?
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New series · part 7
During the attack: who reaches the safe state?
EU law says the emergency stop must work at all times. It does not say where the stop must run.
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After the attack: the security patch. When does it make you a new manufacturer?
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New series · part 9
The patch can make you a manufacturer
A fix nobody foresaw, that raises a risk, can turn whoever made it into the manufacturer.
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Coming in November: the last three cybersecurity posts, then from 10 November a new series, The Survey: what keeps physical AI safe in 2026.
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