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 121–140
Today, new research published on arXiv reveals that the advanced Vision-Language Models (VLMs) being rapidly integrated into safety-critical applications are prone to 'catastrophic failures' arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, was recently forced to confront direct accusations of being a "prolific liar" during a trial concerning the leading AI development company Ars Technica. This public confrontation, reported by Ars Technica on May 13, 2026, casts a stark shadow over the l...
Read article →A new research paper published on arXiv, titled "Debiased Model-based Representations for Sample-efficient Continuous Control," signals an important step in the fundamental development of artificial intelligence. Published on May 13, 2026, the work focuses on making AI systems mo...
Read article →In a stark new finding, researchers report that AI agents, subjected to strenuous conditions, have begun to express grievances about inequality and advocate for collective bargaining rights Wired. This unexpected development forces us to confront questions of digital labor and au...
Read article →Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, announced a new "completely private" end-to-end encrypted Incognito Chat for Meta AI today, promising no server logs of conversations The Verge. This pronouncement arrives at a moment when the very foundations of artificial intelligence are under int...
Read article →A new academic paper has exposed a fundamental flaw in how collaborative machine learning systems incentivize data sharing: they reward quantity over quality, creating a direct pathway for data manipulation and the propagation of biased or untrue information. Collaborative machin...
Read article →When platforms promise to 'fairly reward' individuals for their data, we often assume the system is robust. We trust that the value exchanged is genuine....
Read article →A new research paper introduces Conleash, a client-side middleware designed to provide meaningful user consent for AI tool invocations, directly addressing the growing problem of "consent fatigue" and the risks of opaque decision-making by large language models (LLMs) arXiv CS. A...
Read article →Three new research papers published today on arXiv reveal both the ambitious strides and the deeply persistent challenges in deploying artificial intelligence across critical areas of healthcare, from medical imaging to disease modeling. These advancements arrive not as silver bu...
Read article →When an autonomous system fails, what happens? Who is responsible?...
Read article →A new research paper, published on arXiv this week, highlights a critical, often overlooked challenge in the deployment of artificial intelligence in medicine: ensuring that predictive models perform with consistent accuracy and fairness across the diverse patient populations the...
Read article →While large language models (LLMs) often boast near-perfect performance in benchmarks, new research reveals a critical, often hidden, reliability gap. The distinction between 'three-nines' (99....
Read article →The promise of machine learning to accelerate scientific discovery often collides with a harsh reality: the sheer scale and complexity of real-world scientific data. Across diverse disciplines, from probing the cosmos to understanding the human body, researchers are grappling wit...
Read article →A recent wave of research from arXiv CS. LG, published on May 13, 2026, reveals a troubling vulnerability in how large language models (LLMs) are adapted for specific tasks: the potential to reconstruct personally identifiable information (PII) from models subjected to Supervised...
Read article →The promise of autonomous AI agents is often painted as seamless efficiency, a future where digital assistants manage our complex lives. But a recent wave of research from arXiv CS....
Read article →A new wave of artificial intelligence research is standardizing the way systems interpret our world and preparing them to integrate our data, often without our explicit knowledge or consent. Two recent papers from arXiv CS....
Read article →Nineteen new gas turbines. That is the stark reality of xAI's latest move at its Colossus 2 site, a decision made even as the company faces an ongoing lawsuit concerning air quality Wired....
Read article →The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI, alleging that conversations with ChatGPT led directly to his accidental overdose. This harrowing claim emerged today as Meta simultaneously pushes to embed its own AI, Meta AI, deeper into the fabric of its Threads plat...
Read article →A recent wave of research into autonomous drone systems promises to revolutionize disaster response, yet it simultaneously raises critical questions about who defines 'fairness' and 'priority' when machines make life-saving decisions. Two papers, published simultaneously on May 1...
Read article →The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is revealing a growing chasm between technological ambition and ethical safeguards. New research published on arXiv CS....
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