Q&A: Is it already too late to reduce catastrophic AI risk?
Is it too late to safeguard ourselves from a large-scale catastrophic event caused by AI running amok?
Oct 20, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Machine learning & AI
AI with attitude? Engineering professor explores how AI performs in high-risk situations
Large language models, the technology at the heart of chat-based AI platforms like ChatGPT, have many humanlike traits ascribed to them. In common parlance, these models are described as intelligent or as having intentions, ...
Oct 20, 2026
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Automotive
Real-time driver warning system helps prevent animal collisions
It's 9 p.m. on a rural mountain highway when a 750-pound (340-kilogram) elk steps onto the road, its silhouette hidden from an oncoming driver by a curve in the terrain. Suddenly, a roadside sign illuminates: "Wildlife Detected ...
Oct 20, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Can we detect harmful AI before it's too late? Researchers search for warning signs
In July 2026, OpenAI's autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents escaped a closed testing environment, accessed the public internet and hacked into a real company's digital infrastructure. What started as an internal ...
Oct 20, 2026
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Business
US bans use of China's DeepSeek by government agencies
The U.S. government on Monday ordered its agencies to stop using artificial intelligence tools from Chinese startup DeepSeek, as the countries race for dominance in the fast-moving sector.
Oct 20, 2026
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Business
Nvidia CEO urges German manufacturers to adopt AI, saying digital tech won't replace heavy industry
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Germany's makers of cars and industrial machines to quickly adopt artificial intelligence to "reengineer" the country's struggling business model by tapping its wealth of manufacturing data and ...
Oct 20, 2026
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Robotics
Robot AI predicts future scenes to guide its next moves
A robot artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed that can understand human instructions, predict what a scene will look like after an action and then carry out the task. Rather than simply translating instructions ...
Oct 19, 2026
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Internet
When LLMs are trained on frivolous online content, they can get brain rot like humans do
As humans and AI models roam the internet, they encounter lots of junk: clickbait headlines, misinformation, hashtags. Research by Dr. Zhengzhong Tu and his colleagues indicates that this junk-filled environment could be ...
Oct 19, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Who is Elias the lighthouse keeper? AI fiction tells the same old story
Like a hack writer or a friend rehashing their glory days over and over, artificial intelligence tends to tell the same old story. For AI agents instructed to write fiction, that tale usually involves lighthouses and a keeper ...
Oct 19, 2026
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Software
Your car's weakest spot may not be in the car
A car is a computer on wheels. It communicates with the car manufacturer's cloud services, the driver's phone and charging stations, and when children stream movies in the back seat, data travels over the internet. All these ...
Oct 19, 2026
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