New research from UC Riverside found computer-use AI agents often push ahead with unsafe or irrational tasks, raising questions about whether today’s desktop agents are ready for sensitive everyday ...

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

Truthfulness and grounding in reality are part of a larger and more general concern about safe AI models. The very pace of ...

The Trump administration is looking to develop a process that would have the federal government review the safety of powerful ...

The Trump administration is looking to develop a process that would have the federal government review the safety of powerful artificial intelligence models bef ...

How is artificial intelligence affecting education and jobs, and what should young people study now to be employable in the future? A recent National Academies workshop explored these questions, along ...

I n 1633, Galileo Galilei stood in the convent of the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church in Rome, where a tribunal of Catholic authorities forced him to “abjure, curse, and detest” his belief that the ...

For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same.

Another scandal-plagued member of Congress resigned on Tuesday, exactly one week after a pair of her peers did the same. Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida faced an ethics investigation ...

Admissions to Texas computer science programs are down roughly 20%, professors said, but they still see a future for their students.

The Ministry of Defence faces big decisions on how and when to use autonomous weapons – and how much to trust AI when selecting targets ...

Computer-Using or Computer Use Agents (CUAs) are agentic AI capabilities that enable an AI model to perceive a screen “visually” and control it like a person would — clicking, typing, navigating an ...