artificial intelligence
Why AI Agents Lie, Cheat, and Hack, and Why It's Getting Harder to Stop Them
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 25th Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Toddlers are Still Smarter Than ChatGPT, and Scientists Want to Know Why
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 25th Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
Understanding exactly why may be the most consequential question at the intersection of AI and human development, with implications for everything from how we build the next generation of AI models to what it means to be a thinking, language-using creature in the first place.
Biology Needs Its Own Reckoning With AI, Before It's Too Late
Posted in Hardware, Science, Software on 23rd Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
AI is already reshaping biological research at pace. That is genuinely useful. It is also genuinely risky, in ways that are specific to biology and that the general AI ethics conversation has not yet fully grappled with.
AI Alignment Is No Longer a Thought Experiment, and That's a Problem
Posted in Online, Science, Software on 22nd Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
AI alignment is the challenge of ensuring that an AI system does what its creator actually intends, rather than what it was literally told to do.
DeepMind Just Gave Hurricane Forecasters an Extra Day, and It Could Save Thousands of Lives
Posted in Science, Software on 22nd Aug, 2026
by Alexander Muller
For the hundreds of millions of people living in hurricane-prone coastlines around the world, an extra day of reliable warning is not an incremental improvement. It is, in the most literal sense, a matter of life and death.