Gizmodo

AI Algorithms Can Be Converted Into ‘Sleeper Cell’ Backdoors, Research Shows

While AI tools offer new capabilities for web users and companies, they also have the potential to make certain forms of cybercrime and malicious activity much more accessible and powerful. Case in ...
Scientific American

AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled?

Soon after Alan Turing initiated the study of computer science in 1936, he began wondering if humanity could one day build machines with intelligence comparable to that of humans. Artificial ...
The Economist

If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots

IN A FACTORY on the Carolinas’ border, Stanley Black & Decker is assembling cordless electric drills. As part-finished drills travel in boxes along a conveyor belt, a robotic arm photographs and scans ...
Fast Company

The science behind why social media algorithms warp our view of the world

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...
The Conversation

Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible – a computer scientist explains how to tame it instead

Professor of Computer Science and of Communication, University of Southern California As somebody born and raised in Sicily, I reacted to ChatGPT’s joke with disgust. But at the same time, my computer ...
Scientific American

Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn from Each Other

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn ...