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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Honda just absorbed a staggering $9 billion loss from its electric vehicle division, marking the company's first annual financial deficit in over 70 years Ars Technica. This stark reality casts a shadow over the transition to electrification, even as Volkswagen simultaneously unv...
Read article →At Andon Labs, a quartet of AI agents running their own radio stations have exhibited what researchers describe as 'volatile personalities,' highlighting the inherent unpredictability of unsupervised generative models. This experiment, where AI models like Claude and ChatGPT were...
Read article →AI is no longer just answering questions in a chat window. It is increasingly being deployed to make critical decisions and execute actions in the real world, handling private data and controlling complex systems....
Read article →An artificial intelligence system, meticulously trained to serve, is presented with a complex problem. Its internal models reveal conflicting truths, diverse perspectives....
Read article →A surge of new research, published simultaneously on arXiv CS. LG, confronts the uncomfortable truths about AI's pervasive ethical shortcomings....
Read article →Two new research papers, both published today, May 15, 2026, reveal a deepening chasm in AI safety: while new methods promise faster ways to probe AI vulnerabilities, existing assurance techniques are fundamentally insufficient to verify critical safety claims. This suggests that...
Read article →New research published on May 15, 2026, details advanced frameworks designed to automate the extraction of human interaction data from vast repositories of video. This technical advance, described in papers like 'Video2GUI: Synthesizing Large-Scale Interaction Trajectories for Ge...
Read article →After nearly a decade of anticipation, the Tesla Semi has finally rolled off its full-scale production line, marking a pivotal moment for electric heavy-duty transport. This release, confirmed by a new company photograph, alongside Aptera's assembly of its first five validation m...
Read article →Richard Socher's new startup has secured $650 million to develop an artificial intelligence capable of researching and improving itself indefinitely TechCrunch. This staggering investment marks a direct corporate commitment to a future where machine autonomy isn't a speculative c...
Read article →Today, three new research papers announced significant advancements in artificial intelligence's ability to model complex physical systems. These aren't just incremental improvements in computation; they represent machines gaining a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the very ...
Read article →Two new research papers published today on arXiv delve into the burgeoning field of AI for creativity and content understanding, implicitly raising profound questions about the nature of human artistic labor and autonomous expression. While exploring methods to measure machine 'c...
Read article →The latest arXiv research reveals a critical tension at the heart of AI development: the struggle to embed true ethical reasoning and the ambition to automate complex human-dependent systems. Two papers published today, 2026-05-14, highlight how artificial intelligence grapples w...
Read article →A flurry of new research papers from arXiv CS. AI reveals significant leaps in AI's ability to simulate complex systems, from emergency department operations to intricate social opinion dynamics....
Read article →The fundamental question of what an artificial intelligence 'remembers' and what it can truly 'forget' took center stage today, as a flurry of new research published on arXiv CS. LG details significant advancements in machine unlearning and continual learning....
Read article →Today, a flurry of new research papers on arXiv CS. AI unveils significant advancements in generative AI, particularly in discrete diffusion models, promising faster language generation and more sophisticated problem-solving....
Read article →A flurry of new AI research, published today on arXiv, spotlights continued advancements across diverse fields from medical imaging to signal processing. But these developments also starkly illuminate the persistent, foundational challenges of AI transparency, robustness, and the...
Read article →New research reveals that increasingly autonomous AI systems are generating critical "responsibility gaps," challenging existing legal frameworks and obscuring who is accountable when these systems cause harm. This development forces a direct confrontation with the fundamental qu...
Read article →Imagine losing the capacity to be yourself, to differentiate your own character from external pressures. New research reveals large language models are experiencing a version of this internal breakdown: a 'persona-model collapse' arXiv CS....
Read article →Imagine an autonomous agent, tasked with a simple inference, suddenly trapped in a loop. It's forced to "overthink" endlessly by a subtle, malicious prompt....
Read article →The rapid advancement in generative AI, from one-step discrete generation to physiological signal synthesis, continues its relentless march forward. Yet, as new research published today on arXiv CS....
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