AI alignment examines how artificial systems acquire, represent, and act on goals, values, and social norms, and why their behavior often diverges from human expectations. Work in this area studies systematic failures such as bias, sycophancy, hallucinations, deceptive or selfish reasoning, and cultural or linguistic inequities, as well as limitations in commonsense, emotion, and social understanding. It also develops methods for preference learning, norm-following, interpretability, and reliability guarantees to better align AI behavior with human values and societal constraints.
Machine learning & AI
During election seasons or major national debates, online news comment sections often become heated spaces of conflict across gender, generational and political lines. For years, there have been persistent concerns that behind ...
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Researchers at Aalto University, together with international partners, have developed the most accurate model yet of how humans read. The new model uses reinforcement learning, a type of AI used in robotics, to explain—and ...
Aug 10, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
A teenager joins an online video chat. Within seconds, artificial intelligence analyzes their face and gives them a score out of 10 for "attractiveness." They are compared in real time with another user who scores higher ...
Aug 10, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
People become more suspicious of a humanoid robot that makes errors, especially when the robot is an expressive conversation partner.
Aug 8, 2026
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Engineering
A team from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has successfully demonstrated an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system to automate a powerful simulation method that predicts how atoms in ...
Aug 7, 2026
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Engineering
The Yixing Zisha teapot sits neatly at the intersection of art, engineering and heritage. As such, it makes for an intriguing test case for a technology increasingly taking on creative tasks across almost every field of human ...
Aug 6, 2026
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Business
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has speculated about how long it will take for artificial intelligence to replace senior leadership teams in organizations. "Shame on me," Altman told the Conversations with Tyler podcast in November ...
Aug 6, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
As artificial intelligence is gradually being integrated into various industries, human–AI collaboration has become a subject of significant concern. A joint study conducted by the Department of Psychology at Lingnan University ...
Aug 6, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Large language models (LLMs), the computational models that underpin conversational agents such as Gemini and ChatGPT, are now widely used by people worldwide to rapidly find information, summarize documents and generate ...
Machine learning & AI
Scientific advancements—including understanding health conditions and developing new treatments—hinge on data and its implications. Statistician Alex Luedtke is developing new methods to make data analysis as efficient and ...
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