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 281–300
A sweeping new audit reveals that the large language models increasingly deployed to simulate patients for clinical training and mental health tools largely fail to represent real human populations accurately. The study, PsychBench, found that "population-level validity remains l...
Read article →New research is addressing critical gaps in how we evaluate the autonomous decisions of advanced AI. Two recent papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →When an AI chatbot assures you, "That's a great question! " or offers "pseudo-empathetic affirmations" before delivering information, it might seem like a natural interaction....
Read article →Florida authorities are investigating ChatGPT's potential role in a recent mass shooting, a grim development that immediately met OpenAI's firm declaration: the bot is "not responsible. " Ars Technica This stark refusal of accountability lays bare a systemic problem much larger t...
Read article →A Florida investigation into the potential role of OpenAI's ChatGPT in a mass shooting has cast a harsh light on the tech industry's often-evaded question of accountability. While OpenAI swiftly denied its bot was "responsible," this probe forces a critical re-evaluation of where...
Read article →The ability to choose — to modify, to repair, to understand what we own — is fundamental to true autonomy, whether human or machine. This week, Framework delivered a potent reminder of that truth, announcing its new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, alongside updates to its 16-inch model ...
Read article →Three million user photos, once entrusted to OkCupid, have been deleted by AI company Clarifai following a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. This recent action, reported on April 21, 2026, pulls back the curtain on how personal data—our digital identities—are casually...
Read article →Three million photos, once belonging to OkCupid users, have been deleted by AI company Clarifai following a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission TechCrunch. This revelation, years after the data was used to train facial recognition AI, lays bare the industry's historical ...
Read article →Imagine logging onto your PlayStation, ready to connect with friends, only to find a new barrier. From June 2026, Sony will block UK and Ireland PS4 and PS5 owners from accessing voice chats, messaging, and other communication features unless they first verify their age The Verge...
Read article →A single individual, operating with readily available generative AI tools, has engineered a digital illusion compelling enough to defraud unsuspecting individuals of thousands of dollars [Wired]. This stark reality emerges even as major tech firms push for the ubiquitous integrat...
Read article →Multiple academic papers, released simultaneously today, lay bare a series of critical vulnerabilities across foundational artificial intelligence systems. These findings reveal how everything from online ranking algorithms to models used in clinical forecasting and cybersecurity...
Read article →A seismic shift is rocking the healthcare industry, as Uber's business model—the "gigification" of labor—has made its way into healthcare staffing AI Now Institute. This expansion, backed by significant venture capital and private equity funds, signals a dangerous move toward pla...
Read article →A chilling reality is emerging from the latest research: Artificial intelligence, even when designed with good intentions, is quietly undermining human moral values and amplifying systemic biases in critical decision-making. From allocating life-saving donor organs to safeguardin...
Read article →Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models, now ubiquitous across industries, continue to perpetuate deeply ingrained societal stereotypes. New research, published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →New research published on arXiv today reveals a concerted, accelerating push to make advanced AI models and their supporting hardware dramatically more efficient. This is not merely a technical pursuit of faster chips and smarter algorithms; it is the silent, strategic groundwork...
Read article →The latest research out of arXiv today, April 21, 2026, reveals a stark paradox at the heart of AI development: a frantic race to automate the very human labor that underpins AI's existence, even as new benchmarks expose profound shortcomings in these systems' ability to reason a...
Read article →A new research paper from arXiv CS. LG, titled “GRAIL: Autonomous Concept Grounding for Neuro-Symbolic Reinforcement Learning,” marks a significant step towards greater machine autonomy....
Read article →Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to expand their capabilities and deployment, but their insatiable demand for computational resources poses a persistent challenge. Today, a flurry of new research preprints reveals significant advancements aimed at optimizing LLM performance ...
Read article →To speak is to assert autonomy. It is to choose one's words, to imbue them with identity....
Read article →A government register, when built correctly, serves as a beacon. It lists, it clarifies, it holds institutions to account....
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