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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Engineering
Sound comes from where you see it: Display technology reproduces sound at on-screen locations
An audiovisual convergence display technology has been developed that allows sound to be heard from the exact location of a person or object shown on the screen. Without separate speakers, the technology vibrates the display ...
Oct 19, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
AI that reconstructs cloud-covered ground in satellite images with photo-like clarity
Satellite images of the Earth are not always easy to use. Clouds can block the view of the ground, and images captured with some methods look different from ordinary photographs, which makes them difficult to interpret. A ...
Oct 19, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Microsoft exits data center deal in blow to UK AI ambitions
Microsoft confirmed Monday that it has pulled out of a U.K. AI data center deal with British startup Nscale, in a blow to the country's artificial intelligence ambitions.
Oct 19, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
AI chatbots could help mental health but also reinforce harmful thinking
Artificial intelligence chatbots could help people better understand and manage their mental health, but they could also reinforce harmful thoughts and increase emotional dependence, a Curtin University researcher warns.
Oct 19, 2026
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