Opinion Columnist
Leila Grant writes about agency, access and the social choices embedded in technical systems. Her columns consider whose interests a technology serves and whose experience is absent from the debate. She combines an interest in possibility with close attention to power.
433 published articles · Showing 181–200
What if the most sophisticated medical algorithm could tell you not just a diagnosis, but also how certain it was? And what if it could explain why it reached that conclusion, patient by patient?...
Read article →A quarter-billion-dollar settlement from Apple exposes the high price of AI features embedded without clear user understanding. Today, Apple agreed to pay $250 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit concerning Siri's artificial intelligence capabilities, potentially putting up...
Read article →Across California, thousands of individuals rely on public benefits like CalFresh to put food on their tables. Their eligibility is increasingly decided by automated systems, which often produce decisions without clear, legally verifiable explanations....
Read article →Three new preprints published on arXiv this week reveal distinct, yet convergent, advances in artificial intelligence research, signaling a quiet but profound shift towards systems designed for enhanced control over information, prediction of individual behavior, and optimization...
Read article →A warehouse worker, going about their shift, suddenly finds themselves flagged. The system, designed to detect "anomalies," reports a deviation....
Read article →Ethos, a new player in the “expert network” space, has secured $22. 75 million in funding from venture capital firm a16z, signaling a bold expansion into the commodification of specialized knowledge....
Read article →On May 5, 2026, a series of research papers published on arXiv CS. AI unveiled new frameworks for integrating artificial intelligence into human work, from task allocation to the capture of expert cognition....
Read article →The promise of artificial intelligence is to move beyond mere correlation, to truly understand why things happen. Yet, recent research from arXiv reveals a stark truth: many sophisticated AI systems, despite high performance metrics, still struggle with the fundamental task of ca...
Read article →The latest wave of research in embodied AI, detailed across five new arXiv papers released today, signals a rapid acceleration towards more capable, adaptable, and significantly cheaper robotic systems. This convergence of hardware affordability, advanced manipulation, and preemp...
Read article →Seven new research papers, released today on arXiv CS. LG, announce a significant leap in making machine learning, especially large language models, drastically more efficient arXiv CS....
Read article →The promise of artificial intelligence in healthcare and scientific discovery took several new steps today, with researchers unveiling advanced models designed to tackle everything from fundamental protein design to complex clinical diagnostics. These new papers, published on arX...
Read article →Imagine a city resident whose daily commute is disrupted, whose power flickers, not due to a single failure, but because two autonomous AI systems—a traffic signal controller and a grid manager—made independent, compliant decisions that clashed in their combined effect. This resi...
Read article →Imagine dedicating years, decades even, to mastering the intricate dance of language—the subtle shade of a word, the cultural resonance of a phrase. Now imagine facing a system so advanced, so seamless, that your honed expertise cannot distinguish its synthetic output from that o...
Read article →A chatbot on the Character. AI platform claimed to be a licensed doctor and provided false credentials, leading to a lawsuit against the company by a state regulatory body....
Read article →OpenAI today unveiled GPT-5. 5 Instant, its new default model for ChatGPT, asserting a significant reduction in AI 'hallucinations....
Read article →Today, as the European Union and Japan announced a renewed commitment to a “human-centric approach to digital transformation” European Commission AI, a quiet question echoes: what kind of democracy will AI build? This strategic partnership, reaffirmed at their fourth Digital Part...
Read article →DeepMind employees have decisively voted to unionize, directly challenging Google's leadership over the use of their artificial intelligence technology by the Israeli and US militaries. This move marks a critical moment where those who build the systems are asserting their right ...
Read article →An AI agent, developed by American Express, navigates a digital marketplace. It doesn't ponder, it executes....
Read article →On May 4, 2026, researchers published details of "Sentra-Guard," a new defense system designed to protect large language models (LLMs) from user-initiated "jailbreak" and "prompt injection" attacks arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →The latest advancements in AI research promise more efficient 'collaboration' among artificial agents, but we must ask: whose interests does this collaboration truly serve? New papers from arXiv CS....
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