risks

An illustrated guide to the major risks of artificial intelligence: how each one works, what has already happened, and what would stop it.

Secondary teachers are being urged to keep control of marking their students' work even if it is being done by a computer programme.

To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.

Anthropic plans to warn IPO investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.”

Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Total Surveillance

An extensive list chronicling the risks associated with software development teams leaning hard into AI-generated code and related tooling.

Generative AI has made language tools ubiquitous, but it introduces risks of homogenized texts and semantic slippage.

LLM-as-a-judge uses one model to score another model's output. See how judges prompt and score, the bias risks, and when they beat human review.

There was a call to boycott Disney last fall. The owner of the ABC network had taken Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air over comments Kimmel made about responses to Charlie Kirk's murder, sending free speech proponents into a frenzy . Those free speech proponents include me, who, as a reporter, has clear stakes in protecting that right. Although I was on board with halting support for a company I felt had acted wrongfully, truly boycotting Disney proved harder than I expected. Disney's ubiquity Canceling Disney+ was simple but threw a hefty wrench into my evening routine. I tend to end many weekdays laughing at comforting sitcom reruns and adult animation. I usually associate Disney with princesses, kids' movies, and, more recently, comic heroes. But Disney also owns Hulu, which exclusively streamed many of my favorite shows for unwinding at the time, like American Dad , Futurama , Living Single , Fresh Off the Boat, and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Read full article Comments

Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases , Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing frontier AI. In an agreement Tuesday, two dozen tech firms voluntarily committed to implementing controls recommended by the White House, including undergoing independent safety audits that will test whether firms’ internal controls, monitoring, and detecting are actually working. Key focuses for external reviews included “risks related to cybersecurity, biosecurity, chemical threats, and unintended actions by AI models.” Firms also agreed to regularly meet to discuss best practices and set common AI safety standards and benchmarks. Among signers were leaders like Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet/Google’s Sundar Pichai. Read full article Comments

As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm." These disclosures come as Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion valuation, more than double the $965 billion it was valued at four months ago, making it a contender to overtake SpaceX as the largest IPO in history. According to Reuters , which reportedly reviewed Anthropic's prospectus, the AI startup plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations … Read the full story at The Verge.