Wikipedia won't let AI edit articles, cofounder says
Wikipedia does not trust artificial intelligence enough to let it play a direct role in editing articles on its platform, co-founder Jimmy Wales told AFP on Monday.
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Page 5: Research news on AI alignment
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.
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AI museum brings sights, sounds and smells of the rainforest
The squawks of macaws, the smell of wet earth after rain and a swirl of colors will transport visitors from a Los Angeles museum to the heart of the Amazon rainforest—or rather, an AI version of it.
Jun 19, 2026
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Combining lessons from ants and birds to improve AI
Combining ideas inspired by ant colonies and flocks of birds may hold the key to unlocking more effective artificial intelligence, according to a researcher at Missouri S&T. "With the way AI algorithms are currently structured, ...
Jun 18, 2026
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Top researcher backs nations' push for sovereign AI
French AI researcher Yann LeCun said Wednesday that governments were right to seek sovereign access to the potentially transformative technology.
Jun 17, 2026
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Researchers propose 'copyleft' rules for generative AI
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) poses challenges for the free and open-source software (FOSS) community, a global network committed to creating and maintaining publicly available software that anyone can ...
Jun 15, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
AI model identifies consumers' emotional reactions to new product designs
A new AI system can convert social media discussion about a product into a new design that takes into account user needs more accurately than earlier approaches, according to research published in the International Journal ...
Jun 15, 2026
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Love at first prompt? How AI-assisted courtship is rewriting the rules of online dating
In the famous French play Cyrano de Bergerac, the brilliant but insecure Cyrano lends his eloquence to the handsome, tongue-tied Christian to help him woo his lover. Today, a remarkably similar scene is playing out among ...
Jun 15, 2026
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Human understanding of AI can't keep up with its advancement, researchers say
In a recent editorial published in Science, Microsoft's chief scientific officer, Eric Horvitz, and researcher Robert West from the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL in Switzerland issue a stark warning ...
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How AI chatbots become better learning coaches
Many AI systems answer questions in a matter of seconds—and, in the process, often prevent people from doing exactly what learning is all about: thinking for themselves. Machine learning expert Jakub Mačina is therefore developing ...
Jun 10, 2026
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Robotics
Robots are closing in on human-like judgments, addressing a key challenge in physical AI
KAIST researchers solved a key challenge in the commercialization of physical AI by developing a new technology that enables AI to learn human judgment criteria on its own from just a few videos.
Jun 10, 2026
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