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.
Engineering
Disaster has just struck, roads are inaccessible, and people need shelter now. Rather than wait days for a rescue team, a fleet of AI-guided drones takes flight carrying materials and the ability to build shelters, reinforce ...
Oct 23, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TU Darmstadt have studied how text-to-image generators deal with gender stereotypes in various languages. The results show that the models not only reflect gender ...
Oct 23, 2025
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Engineering
Engineers at Duke University have constructed a group of AI bots that together can solve complex design problems nearly as well as a fully trained scientist. The results, the researchers say, show how AI might soon automate ...
Oct 23, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Like humans, artificial intelligence learns by trial and error, but traditionally, it requires humans to set the ball rolling by designing the algorithms and rules that govern the learning process. However, as AI technology ...
Computer Sciences
A new "blueprint" for building AI that highlights how the technology can learn from different kinds of data—beyond vision and language—to make it more deployable in the real world, has been developed by researchers at ...
Oct 21, 2025
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Robotics
Stanford researchers have developed an innovative computer vision model that recognizes the real-world functions of objects, potentially allowing autonomous robots to select and use tools more effectively.
Oct 20, 2025
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Security
Poisoning is a term most often associated with the human body and natural environments.
Oct 20, 2025
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Business
As local governments adopt new technologies that automate many aspects of city services, there is an increased likelihood of tension between the ethics and expectations of citizens and the behavior of these "smart city" tools. ...
Oct 20, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Whether we're seeking customer support, looking for recommendations, or simply asking a quick question, AI chatbots are designed to give us the answers we're looking for. But there's more going on beneath the surface. Every ...
Machine learning & AI
How do computers see the world? It's not quite the same way humans do.
Oct 15, 2025
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