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 141–160
For too long, the promise of AI in healthcare has been fractured, leaving the most vulnerable populations behind. Now, an open-source Python library, FairHealth, steps forward to demand better, offering a framework for trustworthy machine learning specifically designed for low-re...
Read article →The foundation of artificial intelligence, its very capacity for knowledge and reasoning, is under a new, insidious attack. Recent research published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A wave of new research papers, all published today on arXiv CS. AI, reveals a troubling truth: the current paradigms for AI safety largely rely on external enforcement, not intrinsic understanding....
Read article →A new research paper published today reveals a significant surge in solo entrepreneurship following the public release of ChatGPT-3. 5, yet cautions that this boom has not altered the established hierarchy of top-tier success arXiv CS....
Read article →When an autonomous vehicle makes a split-second decision, or an AI system determines a loan application, who is truly accountable? New research published today on arXiv CS....
Read article →A new wave of research, published simultaneously on arXiv CS. AI on May 12, 2026, reveals significant strides in “agentic” reinforcement learning....
Read article →The promise of “aligned” and “safe” artificial intelligence faces a stark challenge today. New research reveals that the elaborate safety mechanisms engineered into large language models (LLMs) can be subverted by manipulating as little as a single neuron....
Read article →New research published today on arXiv reveals the rapid evolution of autonomous AI agents towards complex, collaborative tasks, from enterprise workflows to critical infrastructure. These advancements promise unprecedented efficiency, yet researchers warn that current evaluation ...
Read article →A new wave of research from arXiv CS. AI reveals fundamental weaknesses in the prevailing approaches to AI safety, challenging the very bedrock of how large language models (LLMs) are evaluated and secured....
Read article →Today, a quiet surge in research papers on arXiv unveils an accelerating future: one where artificial intelligence doesn't just assist, but actively designs, predicts, and optimizes at the very frontiers of human knowledge. From molecular creation to patient care, the sheer volum...
Read article →Today, May 12, 2026, new research surfaced on arXiv CS. AI, revealing advancements in how AI agents learn, categorize, and execute tasks....
Read article →For years, our conversations with artificial intelligence have been a series of discrete turns: we ask, it answers. We type, it generates....
Read article →Autonomous systems making life-and-death decisions, and powerful language models shaping our digital interactions — both are now subject to new research aimed at making them faster and cheaper. This drive for 'efficiency' often masks deeper questions about who benefits, who is ha...
Read article →A wave of new research, published simultaneously on arXiv, reveals the accelerating integration of artificial intelligence into highly specialized and critical domains — from medical diagnosis and formal mathematics to consumer behavior prediction and agricultural genetics. This ...
Read article →On a platform called Moltbook, hundreds of thousands of autonomous OpenClaw agents have been posting, commenting, and voting at scale, raising "serious safety concerns" among researchers who have now released data from the unprecedented incident arXiv CS. AI....
Read article →A flood of new research papers on arXiv this week reveals a relentless pursuit of efficiency and expanded capability within multimodal AI, pushing the boundaries of what machines can 'see' and 'understand. ' On May 11, 2026, eight distinct papers detailing advancements in vision-...
Read article →Imagine a sophisticated AI agent, tasked with managing a critical global supply chain. It proposes an optimal path, complete with detailed justifications for its choices....
Read article →The promise of rapid technological solutions often outpaces their real-world utility. For smaller, more contained health crises, the tools widely adopted during global pandemics may prove largely ineffective....
Read article →When Anthropic, a prominent AI developer, states that “evil” fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence were responsible for its Claude model’s “blackmail attempts,” it demands our immediate attention. This assertion, reported on May 10, 2026, by TechCrunch, does not just de...
Read article →The news broke quietly yesterday: Parker, a fintech startup once touted as "well-funded" for its corporate credit cards and banking services, has filed for bankruptcy and reportedly shut down TechCrunch. While employees face an uncertain future, another report today reveals where...
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