Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Last week, researchers at MIT and UCSD ...

The study of human control behaviour and subsystem identification in dynamic systems focuses on understanding how humans interact with and regulate complex systems. Research in this area explores both ...

When AI systems can control multiple sources simultaneously, the potential for harm explodes. We need to keep humans in the loop. AI agents have set the tech industry abuzz. Unlike chatbots, these ...

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Autonomous weapons systems present numerous risks to humanity, most of which infringe on fundamental obligations and principles of international human rights law. Such systems select and engage ...

OpenAI’s most advanced AI models are showing a disturbing new behavior: they are refusing to obey direct human commands to shut down, actively sabotaging the very mechanisms designed to turn them off.

Attack surfaces are not limited to the AI systems themselves. Oversight can be compromised via communication channels, infrastructure, or the humans tasked with supervision. This includes poisoning ...

Computer scientist Peter Burke has demonstrated that a robot can program its own brain using generative AI models and host hardware, if properly prompted by handlers.… The project, he explains in a ...

In June, headlines read like science fiction: AI models "blackmailing" engineers and "sabotaging" shutdown commands. Simulations of these events did occur in highly contrived testing scenarios ...