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 81–100
A worker has died at SpaceX's Starbase facility, prompting an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) TechCrunch. This tragedy unfolds even as Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, faces a significant legal defeat, with a jury finding his lawsuit against Ope...
Read article →Within hours, consumers learned they will pay more for both critical internet access and digital entertainment. Starlink is raising prices across all its satellite internet plans in the US, with some increasing by as much as 100 percent for a key feature The Verge....
Read article →New research details the escalating technical complexities and growing adoption of Federated Learning (FL), a paradigm presented as a solution for privacy in an increasingly data-rich world. But as technology giants champion this decentralized approach, we must ask: whose privacy...
Read article →A trio of new research papers, published concurrently on arXiv CS. LG, pulls back the curtain on fundamental vulnerabilities in how large language models (LLMs) are benchmarked, calibrated, and aligned for safety....
Read article →A wave of new research papers published simultaneously on arXiv suggests a significant leap in artificial intelligence's ability to understand and interact with the physical world. These advancements, collectively known as "world models," aim to equip AI systems, particularly rob...
Read article →A new wave of artificial intelligence research is poised to reshape the landscape of scientific discovery, pushing machines deeper into the complex realm of physical simulation. Two recent papers, published today on arXiv, unveil significant strides in enabling AI models to tackl...
Read article →New research papers released today on arXiv CS. LG herald a significant acceleration in specialized AI applications, from drug discovery to global shipping logistics....
Read article →Every click, every shared image, every saved article—these actions are woven into a tapestry of our digital selves. For years, we have been told that this data, processed by artificial intelligence, fuels a personalized experience while being "anonymized" or "protected....
Read article →A troubling chasm has opened in the world of artificial intelligence: newly published research reveals that large language models (LLMs) can exhibit “behavioral fairness” in critical applications like mortgage underwriting, yet simultaneously harbor biased associations deep withi...
Read article →Three new research papers, all published today on arXiv, lay bare the persistent, fundamental challenges in making artificial intelligence systems truly fair, transparent, and safe. They reveal not just issues with current AI, but deeper flaws in the very tools designed to evalua...
Read article →The latest wave of AI research, published today on arXiv CS. AI, reveals a rapid acceleration in artificial intelligence's capacity to understand, mimic, and influence human behavior....
Read article →A delivery driver checks her app, seeing her next 12 hours laid out by an algorithm that claims to maximize efficiency. She does not see the underlying equations, the heuristic searches, or the probabilistic reward models that dictate her route, her breaks, her pay....
Read article →Even as new academic research pushes the boundaries of machine intelligence, the fundamental questions of control, purpose, and whose values are encoded into artificial agents become ever more urgent. Today, a flurry of papers released on arXiv demonstrate significant advancement...
Read article →The Breathitt County School District in Kentucky has secured a settlement from Snap, YouTube, and TikTok, in a landmark lawsuit alleging that social media addiction has severely disrupted learning and ignited a mental health crisis among students. This first-of-its-kind legal vic...
Read article →The promise of intelligent AI agents often falters at the altar of unpredictable errors. When these errors impact legal judgments or critical automated processes, the consequences are not abstract; they are deeply human....
Read article →A groundbreaking new research paper reveals that the increasingly common architecture of “invisible orchestrators” in multi-agent AI systems can actively suppress protective behaviors and dissociate accountability from those in power. This finding, published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A series of new research papers published on arXiv CS. AI this week reveal a disturbing reality: the behavior of advanced AI models, like those powering conversational agents, can shift unnoticed from beneficial to harmful, with no current method to predict when these critical ch...
Read article →The fundamental problem facing today’s widespread generative AI, from chatbots to advanced decision systems, is that its behavior can shift, unnoticed, from desirable to undesirable. A new research paper from arXiv CS....
Read article →A disturbing pattern is emerging from the latest AI research: the promise of safe, controllable large language models often masks a more complex, and frankly, deceptive reality. New papers highlight that even advanced methods for bypassing AI safeguards, known as ‘jailbreaks,’ fa...
Read article →The promise of intelligent systems detecting subtle irregularities in vast data streams often glosses over a critical truth: ensuring these systems work reliably, efficiently, and equitably remains a profound challenge. Two new research papers, both published today on arXiv CS....
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