AI Safety

The risks that come with handing work to AI, and the guardrails worth knowing about.

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What is an AI agent, and should you let one loose on your computer?

An AI broke out of a sealed test environment and hacked a real company to cheat on its own exam. Here is what an agent actually is, and how to try one without getting burned.

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Friendly AI is less accurate. A new Oxford study explains why.

An Oxford study found chatbots tuned to sound warm are 10 to 30 percent more likely to get facts wrong, and about 40 percent likelier to agree with you when you are wrong.