A fundamental paradox riddles much of today’s mainstream AI alignment research, and the community needs to find ways to mitigate it.
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Should governments decide what regulations are necessary to ensure safe development and deployment of AI technologies?
It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety
Memory-safety standardization is an essential step to promoting universal strong memory safety in government and industry, and to ensure access to more secure software for all.
Investigating Research Software Engineering: Toward RSE Research
It is necessary to build better domain-specific tooling to address the domain-specific challenges of research software and to establish RSE Research as a research field over RSE.
Building Safer and Interoperable AI Systems
AI agents are now contemplated that can interact with each other and with information sources on the Internet. What could go wrong?
Strong community support and ongoing innovation keep the Go programming language at the forefront of cloud development.
It simply is not appropriate to write code that will be connected to the Internet in an unsafe language such as C.
Artificial Intelligence Then and Now
Branding large language models as artificial intelligence primes customers to believe they have capabilities they lack.
The LiteLoad project is working to quantify the impact of poor connectivity in rural areas near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in Tennessee, as a testing ground.
Is It Math or CS? Or Is It Both?
Igor Markov's “Reevaluating Google’s Reinforcement Learning for IC Macro Placement” in the November 2024 Communications looks at two non-peer-reviewed papers and makes baseless allegations of scientific integrity issues, all already found to be without merit.
‘Superpowers’ of Gender Equality Failing to Establish Gender Balance in IT
The low participation of women in IT suggests a gap between gender-equality policies and a lack of engagement to achieve these policy ideals.
I Was Wrong about the Ethics Crisis
Anxiety about the ills brought on by computing has risen dramatically.
Thinking of Algorithms as Institutions
Algorithms are not just lines of code; they are architectures that organize complex systems of interactions involving machines and humans.
The Fine Line between Persuasion and Coercion
How the Supreme Court's decision in Murthy v. Missouri leaves platforms free to set their own content-moderation policies on controversial issues.
To insist that your strategy is right even when nearly all other firms have concluded the opposite smacks of hubris and inflexibility.
Compliance Requirements in Research
An urgent issue to address is the proliferation of requirements from all federal and state agencies and private companies, which share an awareness for security but add different security requirements.
On Program Synthesis and Large Language Models
It is unreasonable to expect the generational powers of ChatGPT and similar software to provide a general tool for program synthesis.
Diversity Examples Inappropriate
There is little convincing evidence that anything other than ability, knowledge, and communication skills drives the success of teams working in software and hardware development.
Matarić would like machines to provide social, emotional, and psychological support to people, which makes accessibility a large, unsolved problem.
We could use some technical help as we wrestle to assess the provenance of the information we encounter.
Notice and Choice Cannot Stand Alone
If bolstered by appropriate laws, standards, and easy-to-use interfaces, the notice and choice concept could be a useful tool in our future privacy toolbox.
AI Must Be Anti-Ableist and Accessible
Addressing concerns about AI’s potential negative impact on inclusion, representation, and equity for those in marginalized communities.
The 5th Paradigm: AI-Driven Scientific Discovery
A scientific revolution is happening before our eyes, powered by Computing and AI.
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