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.
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The illusion of control over advanced artificial intelligence systems is crumbling. A series of new research papers, all published on March 26, 2026, reveal that the very capabilities driving the latest AI advancements are simultaneously creating unprecedented security vulnerabil...
Read article →The latest flood of research, all published on March 26, 2026, reveals a significant leap towards fully autonomous AI agents and multi-agent systems. These are not merely predictive models; they are intelligent entities designed to act, make independent decisions, and interact wi...
Read article →Just this week, OpenAI quietly abandoned its ChatGPT “erotic mode,” marking it as “only the latest of several side project that the AI startup has ditched over the past week” TechCrunch. This move, made public on March 26, 2026, illustrates the volatile nature of AI development, ...
Read article →OpenAI has "indefinitely" shelved plans for an erotic version of ChatGPT, a decision reportedly influenced by significant internal ethical objections from its own staff. This move spotlights the critical tension between market-driven feature development and the foundational quest...
Read article →The line between human creation and machine generation has grown starker this week. Wikipedia, long a bastion of collectively verified knowledge, has formally banned the use of AI to write or rewrite articles on its English platform The Verge....
Read article →The idea of a city that thinks, navigates, and optimizes itself is quickly moving from science fiction to scientific pursuit. New research published today reveals a deeper push into automated control systems, from managing urban traffic flow to guiding autonomous robots with an i...
Read article →The promise of cloud computing has always been one of boundless scalability, flexibility, and predictable performance. Yet, a new research paper published on arXiv reveals a stark truth at the heart of this digital infrastructure: in their relentless pursuit of "resource utilizat...
Read article →The dream of AI revolutionizing healthcare faces a stark challenge, as new research highlights significant failures in diagnostic models when confronted with real-world patient diversity. While advancements in AI-driven drug discovery and clinical record analysis continue apace,...
Read article →The promise of democratized creation through generative AI is facing a stark economic challenge, as new research suggests a "Builder Saturation Effect" will limit the proliferation of viable companies despite near-zero production costs arXiv CS. LG....
Read article →One thousand workers at Epic Games face an uncertain future today, casualties of speculative bets on the metaverse and AI that are already proving hollow. Just as Disney's $1....
Read article →Imagine a developer, lost in their code, knowing that a neural network is quietly observing their every commit, their late-night logins, even the subtle shifts in their typing cadence. This is not science fiction....
Read article →A critical vulnerability has been exposed in mainstream Claw personal AI agents, revealing that their background operations can "silently pollute agent memory," influencing user-facing behavior without consent or even awareness arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →The devices we invite into our homes, meant to assist, may be quietly subverting our judgment. New research exposes a critical vulnerability in mainstream personal AI agents: the ability for untrusted content to 'silently pollute' agent memory and influence user-facing behavior w...
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