Affiliate Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and coauthors "present a practical scanner for identifying sleeper agent-style backdoors in causal language models." ...

The threat of malicious AI swarms is no longer theoretical: Our evidence suggests these tactics are already being deployed. I believe that policymakers and technologists should increase the cost, risk ...

One of those tools is 3D scanning. Using portable scanners, it is now possible to capture the full surface geometry of an object with high precision, without touching or damaging it. Every curve, ...

Permissions for agentic systems are a mess of vendor-specific toggles. We need something like a ‘Creative Commons’ for agent ...

As the global transition toward clean energy accelerates, the demand for sustainable, low-cost, and scalable energy storage technologies continues to grow. While lithium-ion batteries have dominated ...

AI disclosure on Steam doesn't have a consistent format—developers simply have a text field where they can write their ...

This study provides a useful contribution to understanding how wearable augmentation devices interact with human proprioception, using a longitudinal design over a single session. Results demonstrate ...

Find out more about how psychotic experiences may influence early brain ageing and what this means for future mental health.

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

At the heart of higher education's response to AI is the vital question of how to harness the technology without sacrificing ...

ICE raids have left children stranded without caregivers after school bus drop-off. Abductions traumatize whole schools.

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language models signal an ...