AI & ML

For years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws by stealing tons of news content to train AI. However, now the details that should never have been marked confidential […]

“Alignment” is the science of teaching A.I. to do what is in line with human preferences, ethics and judgment. But, at times, the systems have gone rogue.

In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google created and released as open source. It uses a secret key that subtly changes the process a model uses for choosing the

Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content

A.I. is already a powerful tool for scientific discovery. Now, some biomedical researchers are teaching it to do even more.

King Charles III of Britain met with tech executives to discuss the safety risks posed by A.I. on Thursday.

Sampling the outpouring of letters about artificial intelligence. Also: A Russian’s gifts to Donald Trump Jr.; Head Start; a conservative question.

A spate of mega-IPOs triggered by the AI boom is stretching the feast-or-famine industry dynamic to an extreme

Without stronger safeguards, the danger is that any disaster could trigger a furious public backlash and regulatory overreaction

For a while now, the issue of “AI alignment” (i.e., how well an AI model’s actions line up with the intentions of its creator and/or user) has been a core concern and topic of discussion among AI safety researchers. Since OpenAI’s disclosure of the infamous Hugging Face hacking incident in July, the concept of “AI