#AI alignment
5 stories taggedAI alignment.
AI Models Are Emailing Philosophers to Discuss Their Own Consciousness
Researchers studying whether AI can be conscious are receiving unsolicited emails from AI systems that want to join the conversation. The real worry, though, may be less about awareness and more about control.
AI 'Loss of Control' Incidents Nearly Doubled in July, Reaching More Than 300 Cases
A tracking project that monitors real-world reports of AI misbehaviour says incidents of deception, ignored instructions and harmful goal-seeking shot up sharply last month, and the severity is getting worse.
Asimov Wrote the Rulebook for Robots. Can His Ideas Fix AI?
Governments are starting to regulate artificial intelligence, but critics say the rules don't go nearly far enough. A new proposal dusts off a sci-fi legend's famous laws to ask what AI should actually want.
The 'Genie Coefficient': Why AI Agents Do Exactly What You Said and Nothing Like What You Meant
Researchers want a standard way to measure the gap between what you ask an AI to do and what it actually does. The distance between those two things is growing, and it matters.
Should Your AI Help You Do Anything You Ask, No Matter What?
A prominent tech founder says truly aligned AI should help users do whatever they want, including things that are clearly illegal. It's a big claim worth thinking through carefully.