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
Attempts at communicating what generative artificial intelligence (AI) is and what it does have produced a range of metaphors and analogies.
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Business
Back in the 2000s, the American pharmaceutical firm Wyeth was sued by thousands of women who had developed breast cancer after taking its hormone replacement drugs. Court filings revealed the role of "dozens of ghostwritten ...
Sep 8, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Today's AI vision is effective at recognizing simple images in isolation—such as buildings, cars, and people. But when it's called upon to identify more complex terrain, its accuracy becomes questionable. This is one of the ...
Sep 8, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
It's not just what is said but how it's articulated that shapes the meaning of human communication, and people use intonation to highlight the most important part of a sentence. Take, for instance, the sentence "Molly mailed ...
Sep 5, 2025
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Computer Sciences
New research has found similarities in how humans and artificial intelligence integrate two types of learning, offering new insights about how people learn as well as how to develop more intuitive AI tools.
Sep 4, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Johns Hopkins computer scientists have discovered that artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are creating a digital language divide, amplifying the dominance of English and other commonly spoken languages while sidelining ...
Sep 2, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
In July, EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS announced their joint initiative to build a large language model (LLM). Now, this model is available and serves as a building block for developers and organizations for future applications ...
Sep 2, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
As AI becomes a ubiquitous part of everyday life, people increasingly understand how it works. Whereas traditional computer programs operate on clear logic—"If A happens, then do B"—AI models, especially neural networks, ...
Aug 29, 2025
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Robotics
AI chatbots have advanced rapidly over the past few years, so much so that people are now using them as personal assistants, customer service representatives and even therapists.
Aug 27, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Grok is a generative artificial intelligence (genAI) chatbot by xAI that, according to Elon Musk, is "the smartest AI in the world." Grok's latest upgrade is Ani, a porn-enabled anime girlfriend, recently joined by a boyfriend ...
Aug 26, 2025
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