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 261–280
New research today from arXiv reveals a significant leap in AI agent capabilities, moving beyond mere text generation to systems designed for sustained interaction and the accomplishment of real-world goals arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →The latest research reveals a troubling reality: the guardrails we've been promised for artificial intelligence may be an elaborate illusion. New studies published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →For years, the promise of artificial intelligence has been the creation of sophisticated tools to serve human needs. But a wave of research, published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →A fundamental breakdown in digital infrastructure and content integrity is leaving institutions, individuals, and the very fabric of public discourse vulnerable. Today, reports emerge of hundreds of university subdomains hijacked to serve pornography, while convicted conspiracy t...
Read article →A startling convergence of surveillance and targeting technologies is rapidly expanding from distant battlefields into the heart of American communities. Today, both Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U....
Read article →Beehiiv, once known solely as a newsletter platform, has significantly expanded its offerings with new creator tools, including webinars and customizable paywalls TechCrunch. This shift, alongside Bluesky’s enhancement of photo quality, signals a broader industry movement where p...
Read article →A flurry of research papers, all released on the same day, signals a critical inflection point in artificial intelligence development. Three distinct but related investigations, published on arXiv CS....
Read article →Three new papers from arXiv CS. LG, all published on April 24, 2026, collectively challenge the assumption that artificial intelligence models adapt autonomously....
Read article →New research reveals that the very structure of our digital connections, even when fragmented, can be reconstructed, exposing private network topologies. This breakthrough in Graph Neural Network (GNN) analysis, published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →A flood of new research from arXiv CS. LG, published April 24, 2026, reveals a stark reality: the foundational challenges of AI safety, ethics, and accountability are far more complex and entrenched than industry narratives often suggest....
Read article →A significant acquisition in AI-driven customer service and a fresh infusion of capital for personal AI gadgets were announced today, signaling a relentless drive to embed artificial intelligence deeper into our daily lives and workplaces. Sierra, the AI customer service agent st...
Read article →OpenAI has unveiled its GPT-5. 5 model, declaring it the company's "smartest model yet—faster, more capable, and built for complex tasks like coding, research, and data analysis across tools" OpenAI Blog....
Read article →A significant stride in making artificial intelligence more transparent for medical diagnosis has emerged from new research. A paper published on arXiv, titled "Improving clinical interpretability of linear neuroimaging models through feature whitening," proposes a method to enha...
Read article →Imagine a system that decides your future, weighing conflicting demands: profit against fairness, efficiency against equity. Now, imagine that system is fundamentally flawed, prone to 'value function interference' and 'overestimation sensitivity' arXiv CS....
Read article →Every single day, countless individuals and global organizations stake their digital security and critical decision-making on the promises of artificial intelligence. But a series of new research findings published today by arXiv CS....
Read article →Meta, a company built on collecting human data, is now installing surveillance software directly onto its US-based employees' work computers. This new tool, the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), records mouse movements, keystrokes, clicks, and even takes occasional screenshots, ...
Read article →On April 21, 2026, a series of research papers published on arXiv CS. AI laid bare a disturbing reality: artificial intelligence, in its accelerating proliferation, is enabling mass killings, deceiving investors, and making unproven judgments in critical human contexts....
Read article →A flurry of new research, published on April 21, 2026, paints a stark, unsettling picture of artificial intelligence's deepening societal impact. From its integration into modern weapons systems linked to mass killings to widespread corporate deception around AI capabilities and ...
Read article →The fight for control over artificial intelligence intensifies, not on a battlefield, but in the quiet advancements of multimodal research. A new method, Compositional Semantic Fingerprinting (CSF), has emerged, allowing for the black-box attribution of fine-tuned text-to-image m...
Read article →New research introduces a novel AI model designed to dramatically speed up the optimization of large-scale electrical power grids arXiv CS. AI....
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