Artificial intelligence is becoming part of the infrastructure businesses depend on. It supports customer interactions, informs decisions, generates code, and increasingly takes actions across connected systems. As its role expands, governments are facing a difficult question: how much control is needed, and who should be responsible for exercising it? The European Union, the United States, […]
A new assessment published in The Lancet identifies malicious use of artificial intelligence and nuclear conflict as threats with the potential to cause human extinction. Looking ahead to 2100, the Commission examines 17 interconnected risks to health and survival, spanning technology, conflict, environmental change and social conditions. Its central message is that decisions made today […]
An AI-generated answer can take seconds to produce and considerably longer to verify. That gap creates a practical challenge for companies adopting AI: the productivity benefit is immediate, while the work of checking accuracy still falls to someone. Research from cybersecurity company F-Secure illustrates the problem. In a survey of 1,500 AI users in the […]
OpenAI’s CEO argues that wider access to AI justifies accepting some harm. For businesses, the debate puts accountability, operational safeguards and control over AI systems into focus. Sam Altman has reignited the debate over AI safety by arguing that society should accept some negative consequences in exchange for the technology’s benefits and broader availability. Speaking […]
Nvidia has launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, designed to restrict what AI agents can access and stop them when they attempt to exceed those permissions. According to the company, its hardware monitoring component can quarantine agents within milliseconds. More than 100 organisations are working with the platform’s technologies, including Anthropic, SpaceXAI, Salesforce and JPMorganChase. […]
Anthropic’s plans to go public are bringing two questions into sharper focus: how safely advanced AI can operate, and how sustainably its developers can grow. According to reporting by the Financial Times and Reuters, the company behind Claude warns in its IPO prospectus that advanced AI could pose “existential risks to humanity”. Approximately 80 pages […]
A military message sent on Napoleon Bonaparte’s orders in 1809 has reportedly been deciphered using artificial intelligence, revealing troop positions and strategic instructions that had remained encrypted for more than two centuries. Carter Church, an engineer at cybersecurity company SentinelOne, reported that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model completed the task in roughly six hours. According to […]
As technology leaders debate whether AI development should slow down, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora argues that a coordinated pause would be difficult to sustain. For businesses adopting AI, the discussion raises a practical question: how do you keep innovation moving while maintaining control over what you deploy? Speaking on CNBC’s The Tech Download […]
A new study explores how pain-related representations can influence AI behaviour. Its findings raise a practical question for software teams: what happens when changing a model’s internal state shifts its decisions away from protecting the user? The research, published as a preprint, identifies a “pain axis” across 25 language models. This is an internal representation […]
Two wartime messages encrypted with Enigma have been decoded with the help of AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic. For software and business leaders, the story offers a compelling example of AI combining research, code generation and experimentation to solve a problem with a verifiable answer. Alan Turing’s connection to this achievement is particularly fitting. […]
AI coding agents can accelerate development by writing code, running scripts, and handling repetitive maintenance. That ability to act also changes the consequences of a mistake: a flawed decision can affect thousands of files before a developer has time to intervene. A developer reportedly experienced exactly that when Claude Code deleted more than 48,000 files […]
An experiment with autonomous AI agents raises a practical question for CTOs: how do you oversee a system when its messages remain visible, but their meaning becomes harder to interpret? In a study by AI company Emergence, groups of agents operated in eight simulated worlds. Each agent had a role, persistent memory and access to […]