Opinion

The problem with AI flattering us

If we do not address AI's sycophancy problem, we risk AI becoming "a giant mirror to our illusions." ...
We’re now deep into the AI era, where every week brings another feature or task that AI can accomplish. But given how far down the road we already are, it’s all the more essential to zoom out and ask ...
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, Little, Brown, and Company, 272 pages, $30Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill ...
A Space Odyssey, the HAL 9000 computer did not go rogue and kill the entire crew except one because it was evil in any sense.
What makes Vivek Shah's story resonate so deeply is that his commitment to quality and alignment extends far beyond the realm ...
Much of the existing literature, the authors argue, treats responsible AI as a trade-off problem. In this view, organizations are expected to balance innovation against caution, speed against safety, ...
AI agents are no longer a research concept. They book travel, execute trades, draft documents, approve purchases, and interact with ...
Vivek Shah isn’t a one-trick pony. Before launching Gauge AI, he cut his teeth in the competitive world of consumer tech, ...
Speaking with ComicBook about his new film, Avatar: Fire and Ash, we had to bring up the debates surrounding AI and how, after making the highly influential sci-fi franchise, The Terminator, no one ...