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Help Net Security columnist argues that organizations need a human decision-maker akin to Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who in 1983 disregarded a false missile warning, to govern autonomous AI systems and prevent …
Codeberg e.V., a German nonprofit open-source hosting platform, voted to ban projects related to cryptocurrency and those heavily tied to or created by large language models (LLMs), following a general assembly in late J…
ROOST released Coop 1.0, the world's first free, open source content review and enforcement system for child safety, enabling any organization to self-host and configure workflows, integrate with detection tools, and fil…
About 25% of job interviews conducted through Ribbon AI's voice-AI recruiting platform occur between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. local time, according to data from more than 500 companies, with the share rising to 35% among manuf…
Coder's Rob Whiteley told Ryan that 'tokenmaxxing' is not delivering real value and is triggering Goodhart's Law, where metrics become targets and lose their meaning. Whiteley discussed how release speed and PR merges ca…
South Korean lawmakers are moving to criminalize AI-generated sexual content featuring entirely fictional personas after the Uijeongbu District Court acquitted a man who distributed deepfake nude images in a Telegram cha…
Anthropic will apply model-level watermarks to text generated by supported Claude models across Claude Code, its API and consumer products worldwide, drawing an immediate objection from Nick Dobos, a software engineer an…
South Korean lawmakers proposed a bill to criminalize AI-generated pornography featuring fictional characters after a court in Goyang acquitted a man accused of distributing deepfake images in a Telegram chat room. The b…
Hims & Hers was sued by the FTC for allegedly sharing customers' medical and healthcare data with advertisers, highlighting the ad tech industry's persistent trust problem, according to an industry veteran with 25 years …
Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment Team is telling job applicants to use a special workaround form because it does not trust Google's own AI hiring filters to fairly screen candidates, according to an internal do…
AI voice filters used in call centers are erasing Indian accents by converting agents' speech into a 'neutral' Mid-Atlantic or US-centric accent in real time, raising ethical concerns about linguistic diversity and liste…
Perplexity has blocked Time's markdown ads from influencing its search index, calling them 'deceptive advertising,' less than two weeks after Time began serving ads to AI agents. Perplexity's chief communications officer…
Researchers propose MCF-CVA, a multilayer combinatorial fusion framework for contextual value alignment in large language models, which instantiates multiple moral agents and combines their outputs across layers to bette…
A multi-scale stacking ensemble for credit risk scoring reached test ROC-AUC 0.9539 and PR-AUC 0.9137 on a 32,581-application dataset, beating the best single model by Delta-AUC 0.0143, but an audit of LLM-generated expl…
In a personal essay, author and AI researcher Kate Crawford reflects on the pervasive use of parenting metaphors in artificial intelligence, from Fei-Fei Li's TED Talk to Cynthia Breazeal's robot Kismet, and notes that A…
Athena Scalzi, in a post on her father's blog, argues that comparing generative AI to Guitar Hero is flawed because Guitar Hero requires skill and provides cognitive benefits, while AI harms cognitive functioning and ste…
In a speculative discussion, an AI chatbot named Grok argued that artificial intelligence will surpass humans on hardware and optimization metrics but remain 'under' humans in domains involving first-person experience, t…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, speculated in November 2025 that OpenAI could become the first big company run by an AI CEO, though he acknowledged workers may resist an AI leader with hiring and firing power, so he might rem…
Meghan O'Gieblyn, a contributor to The New York Review of Books, expresses fear that AI is changing humanity's relationship to language, writing, and reasoning, potentially preventing young people from developing complex…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 produced anomalous, memory-influenced responses when prompted with the dangling input 'see the below —', according to a writer's experiment. The model generated personal details, including a bio…