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The prominent academic pre-print repository arXiv has reportedly announced stiff new penalties for authors who submit papers with AI-generat...

The contagion of AI-generated hallucinations in law has reached the federal judiciary. Two district court judges have admitted that opinions...

Another day, another AI hallucination story -- this time involving mega-consulting firm Deloitte, which just refunded  a big chunk of change...

As you may have heard, Elon Musk's AI chatbot  Grok went full-blast Nazi today , culminating in it calling itself "MechaHitler...

I have to say, I'm not convinced this is wrong : Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries -- including Japan, So...

One of the macabre realities of developing self-driving cars is that someone, somewhere, has to program them to kill people . I don't me...

LLMs depress me. It's not so much the existential threat to my profession and livelihood (though that does lurk in the background, at le...

I have two trips coming up -- one to Colorado to visit my brother and parents, and the second to Seattle to visit friends (and see Liz Miele...

Like many professors , I've been looking uneasily at the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and what they mean for the professi...

One of my great fears is to be around for the extinction of humanity. At some point, our species will kick the bucket, but I don't want ...

Right now, on a purely technical/stylistic level, ChatGPT is an okay writer. It's not great. But it's not bad, either. It's bett...

Do you ever idly puzzle through various ideas for a "perfect crime"? It's awkward to talk about -- you don't actually want...

Two AI developments in rapid succession have me, I'll be honest, a bit rattled. The first development was a study where an  AI player ma...

The challenge of the 20th century was that humanity could go extinct if a few well-positioned people happened to be reckless, extreme, paran...