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
MIT researchers have created a periodic table that shows how more than 20 classical machine-learning algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse strategies from different methods to ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
It seems that no matter the topic of conversation, online opinion around it will be split into two seemingly irreconcilable camps.
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Machine learning & AI
AI models like ChatGPT have amazed the world with their ability to write poetry, solve equations and even pass medical exams. But they can also churn out harmful content, or promote disinformation.
Apr 15, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy."
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Machine learning & AI
We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.
Apr 14, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Ideally, artificial intelligence agents aim to help humans, but what does that mean when humans want conflicting things? My colleagues and I have come up with a way to measure the alignment of the goals of a group of humans ...
Apr 14, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Humans' ability to learn from one another across cultures over generations drives our success as a species as much as our individual intelligence. This collective cultural brain has led to new innovations and developed bodies ...
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Internet
News articles produced by artificial intelligence (AI) do not have the same creative flair as stories written by human journalists, according to research into the stylistic differences between the storytellers.
Apr 9, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
How do apps improve? For some of today's most popular applications, it's by listening to their customers.
Apr 9, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Movies like "The Terminator," in which an artificial intelligence system goes rogue and tries to wipe out humanity, depict our worst fears about AI.
Apr 8, 2025
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