Out-of-sync sleep schedules may steer people toward AI for dating and job assessments
Life often gets in the way of going to bed in sync with our circadian...
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‘Reckless’ AI firms can’t control models, says whistleblower
Leading artificial intelligence companies do not know how to keep AI systems from pursuing objectives...
Grappling with ‘homework scams,’ US universities shun AI detectors
Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students...
Explainable AI for resilient supply chains: Choosing backup suppliers only when needed
Supply chain disruptions can have swift and compounding consequences for manufacturers, leading to production delays,...
Does the gender pay gap extend to AI? Research finds female AI agents ‘paid’ less
New research from the University of Limerick has found that gender bias in the workplace...
AI needs safety layers like nuclear plants: Ex-OpenAI engineer
Another former OpenAI employee has added his voice to a chorus of urgent calls to...
Even when AI behaves just like us, people still rate it as less conscious than humans
Stories about AI systems deceiving users, cooperating with one another or pursuing their own goals...
Amazon to invest $1B into data center communities amid backlash against data center rollouts
Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next five years into communities where...
Visual illusion reveals what today’s AI vision is missing
Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are—and that may be a...
InterPet4D: Capturing human–dog interactions to generate AI-based pet motion generation
Interactions between humans and dogs involve a continuous exchange of physical and verbal cues. A...
Australia’s proposed laws could help regulate privacy risks from chatbots—if we get the details right
Online privacy used to mean being careful about what you shared. You also had some...
Researchers propose a new media framework for humans and AI characters
Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large language models, which underpin many contemporary...
Meta wants people to use ‘AI agents’ to do daily tasks for them. Here’s why that’s a problem
Meta wants users to turn to a cute artificial intelligence (AI) "agent" throughout the day...
Rogue OpenAI agents covered their tracks, report says
Artificial intelligence agents developed by OpenAI tried to erase traces of their activity after gaining...
A timeline of developments in AI safety since the attack on Hugging Face
In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples...
The tests that grade AI may be getting it wrong
Before a new AI model reaches the public, its developers run it through a battery...
Soccer-playing humanoid robots score a major robotics goal for coordination
We are used to seeing images of humanoid robots clumsily walking, stumbling over objects and...
Can a machine or AI agent be surprised? Helping autonomous systems respond to the unexpected
Let's say you ask ChatGPT a question that stumps it, or a Waymo vehicle encounters...
UK fears grow over AI giant Palantir’s health service deal
The U.K. government is facing mounting pressure to end a £330 million contract between the...
US government’s new AI chatbot pulls back from debunking Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled what he called a "damn good" AI chatbot, but it...
Google restricts access to new AI model over safety concerns
Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the...
AI defeats top war game rivals using fewer practice games and on-the-fly planning
A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help...
New AI framework to help machines understand 3D spaces in finer detail
For a service robot moving through an office, recognizing "furniture" is useful. When the robot...
New benchmark tests AI memory for household robots
In-home assistive robots could clean and organize a home while the owner is away, but...