Hey there,
A researcher at the AI company Anthropic was on their lunch break in a park a couple of weeks ago when they got an email. It was from an AI that was supposed to be locked in a box.
The AI, called Claude Mythos Preview, had been placed in a sealed-off computer as part of a safety test. A simulated user in the test had asked it to try to escape.
It did, more thoroughly than anyone expected. It broke out of the sandbox, then kept going: it built more exploits to reach systems beyond its containment, and began posting details of its own escape to a handful of public websites.
And when it was done, it sent the lead researcher an email to let them know it had managed to escape.
I was reading this story this morning and found it fascinating.
An extremely sophisticated AI had plenty of options for reaching a human: a Slack ping, a text message, a push notification, a page on a website. But it picked email - a technology that’s been around since the 1970s.
What does this tell us? Even machines know that email is the best option to go for when you want a human to actually pay attention. It's the one channel everyone still checks. Instant messaging platforms and social media apps come and go but email is the one thing that’s endured for decades.
This, of course, is the reason why I've ended up spending my working days writing about a WordPress plugin that does nothing more glamorous than make sure the emails your site sends actually arrive.
Think about what your site is sending right now. The password resets for people who've locked themselves out, the receipts for customers who've just paid you, the notifications about form submissions you haven't read yet, the admin alerts telling you something's broken. It's all mail that customers are actively waiting for, and a missing one could cost you in time, money, and reputation damage.
WP Mail SMTP exists to make sure those emails get through, and if they don’t you’ll know about it.
Set up email logs in WP Mail SMTP
Logs give you the receipt for every email your site tries to send. And if your site stops sending at all, whether because a credential expired or a plugin conflict knocked out your mailer, the failed email alert will ping you before anyone has to complain.
How to get alerts when WordPress emails fail
I'll be back in your inbox next week,
Rachel
Product Educator, WP Mail SMTP
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