The world’s largest tech gathering is talking about “accountability laundering”—here’s why we should christen them Words of the Year

Summer Yue isn’t the most famous employee at Meta. The director of “superintelligence alignment and safety research” posts pictures of her walking her dog on the beach and messages about testing the honesty of AI assistants. She has a modest number of followers on social media. 

But for one day in February, Summer Yue became the most talked about person at Meta. Not for launching a remarkable new product or announcing a breakthrough in agentic AI. She became the most talked about person at Meta for being caught out.