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 241–260
A wave of new research published on arXiv CS. AI this week fundamentally re-evaluates the risks of autonomous AI, warning that systems are now capable of producing "competent-looking judgment" at near-zero marginal cost, while the mechanisms to govern, secure, and hold them accou...
Read article →A new research paper from arXiv outlines a powerful application of Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for detecting market manipulation in cryptocurrency markets. This approach moves beyond isolated transaction analysis, instead recognizing fraud as a coordinated, systemic iss...
Read article →On April 28, 2026, two new research papers quietly landed on arXiv CS. LG, signaling a deeper integration of artificial intelligence into the fundamental infrastructure of our wireless world....
Read article →A new research paper published on arXiv, dated April 28, 2026, details a method for achieving a more “general understanding” of human movement through 2D pre-training for 3D Human Pose Estimation (HPE) arXiv CS. LG....
Read article →Maria, an autonomous transport operator, felt the micro-adjustments in her vehicle's route, her schedule, her very movements, dictated by an unseen algorithm. Each reroute, each optimized stop, represented a gain in efficiency for the system, but a tightening grip on her autonomy...
Read article →New research released today exposes critical vulnerabilities in the very systems designed to evaluate artificial intelligence. As Large Language Models (LLMs) become central to everything from content moderation to code generation, two independent studies reveal that these automa...
Read article →The promise of AI to assist with complex human needs often comes with a quiet, dangerous cost. New research reveals that large language models (LLMs), deployed as mental health support agents at scale, are failing in crucial ways....
Read article →For too long, complex AI systems have operated with a troubling degree of opacity, often delivering results that look plausible but betray the fundamental laws of the world they are meant to model. This week, a flurry of new research from arXiv CS....
Read article →The landscape of artificial intelligence is shifting, not just towards larger, more powerful models, but towards a proliferation of specialized “foundation models” adapted for highly specific tasks. Recent research, published concurrently on April 28, 2026, across arXiv CS....
Read article →New research published today on arXiv CS. LG reveals significant advancements in AI time series forecasting....
Read article →The promise of Explainable AI (XAI) — systems that can articulate why they make decisions — has long been a counterpoint to the opaque “black box” models dominating our technological landscape. Now, new research published on arXiv introduces a framework for "Explainability-as-a-S...
Read article →What does it mean when the machines that see, learn, and guide us become cheap, ubiquitous, and deeply embedded? New research published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A new class of attack, dubbed Stealth Pretraining Seeding (SPS), is now capable of embedding hidden vulnerabilities directly into large language models (LLMs) during their foundational training. This insidious method plants 'logic landmines' in the very core of these powerful AI ...
Read article →Over 600 Google employees, including more than 20 principals, directors, and vice presidents, have formally demanded that CEO Sundar Pichai block the Pentagon from using Google’s advanced AI models for classified military purposes The Verge. This internal plea for ethical restrai...
Read article →Samsung’s forthcoming smart glasses, code-named "Jinju," have been revealed in leaked images, signaling another step into a future where personal data capture is designed directly onto our faces The Verge. These aren't just spectacles; they are cameras, microphones, and data proc...
Read article →A new research paper introduces EgoMAGIC, a comprehensive dataset collected under DARPA's Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program, aimed at developing virtual assistants for medical tasks using augmented reality headsets arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →New research from arXiv CS. AI reveals "CognitiveTwin," a digital twin framework designed to predict patient-specific cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease....
Read article →A stark paradox emerged this week in the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence: as some researchers publicly assert that advanced language models possess a profound, even superior, understanding of ethics, a foundational architect of modern AI warns the entire field i...
Read article →The rapid ascent of autonomous AI agents, capable of complex planning and action, is poised to reshape our societal structures, creating what researchers call 'agentic inequality' – a new frontier of power disparities arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →Imagine a city of two million individuals, each diligently working, interacting. Now imagine this city is entirely digital, populated by large language model agents....
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