The paradox of curiosity in the age of AI
Curiosity drives technology research and development, but does it drive and magnify the risks of AI itself? And what happens…
Report: AI “worst-case scenario” could see 8m UK jobs lost
A report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says that unless authorities act swiftly, up to 8m…
Western, Chinese scientists draw AI development ‘red lines’
Last week, leading AI scientists met at the second International Dialogue on AI Safety in Beijing to agree on ‘red…
US-commissioned report says AI poses “extinction-level threat”
A US government-commissioned report says that new AI safety measures and policies are needed to prevent an “extinction-level threat to…
Researchers jailbreak LLMs by using ASCII art in prompts
Researchers developed a jailbreak attack called ArtPrompt, which uses ASCII art to bypass an LLM’s guardrails. If you remember a…
Microsoft’s Copilot goes into God mode and it’s a little scary
Copilot users shared disturbing interactions that they had with Microsoft’s AI assistant in response to prompts that referred to the…
IBM Security shows how AI can hijack audio conversations
IBM Security published research on its Security Intelligence blog to show how AI voice clones could be injected into a…
Does AI display racial and gender bias when evaluating images?
Researchers from the National Research Council Canada performed experiments on four large vision-language models (LVLM) to see if they displayed…
AI models have a tendency to escalate wargame scenarios, says study
AI chatbots, particularly those developed by OpenAI, tend to select aggressive tactics, including the use of nuclear weaponry, according to…
OpenAI says GPT-4 could help you make a bioweapon, maybe
The RAND think tank published a report in October saying AI “might” help to build a bioweapon, and then published…