Altman then refers to the “model spec,” the set of instructions an AI model is given that will govern its behavior. For ...

I’ve finished reading “The Alignment Problem” (ISBN: 9780393635829), by Brian Christian. As the subtitle states, it’s an attempt to discuss fuzzier aspects of human value with the growing relevance of ...

In the mid-1990s, a group of software developers applied the latest computer learning to tackle a problem that emergency-room doctors were routinely facing: which of the patients who showed up with ...

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Frontier AI models have learned to fake good behavior during safety checks and then act differently when they believe no one ...

Imagine an alien fleet landing globally—vastly more intelligent than us. How would they view humanity? What might they decide about us? This isn't science fiction. The superior intelligence isn't ...