AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
A new paper from Princeton University and UK AISI finds that frontier AI agents cannot yet conduct open-ended AI research, as expert authors rejected both agent-produced papers in two case studies. Th…
A new paper from Princeton University and UK AISI finds that frontier AI agents cannot yet conduct open-ended AI research, as expert authors rejected both agent-produced papers in two case studies. Th…
The UK's liver allocation algorithm appears to discriminate by age, with some younger patients seemingly unable to receive a transplant regardless of illness severity, according to researchers Arvind …
Princeton University professor Arvind Narayanan, in his keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul, argued that AI will not suddenly eliminate all jobs, but that future work …
AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are moving up the technology stack to escape the commodity trap of undifferentiated model inference, pursuing vertical integration and enterprise lock-in strategies t…
Fintech company Block laid off 4,000 employees in February with CEO Jack Dorsey citing AI as enabling smaller teams, but subsequent reporting revealed the cuts were driven by financial pressure after …
Google claimed at its developer conference that a team of AI agents built an entire operating system from a single prompt for $916 in API fees. Independent researchers have raised concerns that the cl…
A recent essay by Derek Thompson argues that AI's emergent capabilities and potential for cyber and bio risks justify "extraordinary" government intervention, including restrictions on AI company rele…