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Across disciplines, bad AI predictions have a surprising tendency to make human experts perform worse.

AI, human performance, safety-critical settings, Joint Activity Testing, human-AI collaboration, AI predictions, aviation safety, healthcare alarms, nuclear power plant control, algorithmic risk, AI oversight, cognitive systems engineering, safety frameworks, nurses study, resilient performance

The Code provides a powerful incentive to push frontier developers toward measurably safer practices.

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Six years of export restrictions have given the U.S. a commanding lead in key dimensions of the AI competition — but it’s uncertain if the impact of these controls will persist.

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Placing AI in a nuclear framework inflates expectations and distracts from practical, sector-specific governance.

Congress is weighing a measure that would nullify thousands of state AI rules and bar new ones — upending federalism and halting the experiments that drive smarter policy.

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Designed to protect human creativity, copyright law is under pressure from generative AI. Some experts question whether it has a future.

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A global race to build powerful AI is not inevitable. Here’s how technical solutions can help foster cooperation.

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Abandoning liability mechanisms risks creating a dangerous regulatory vacuum.

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Autonomous AI-enabled organizations are increasingly plausible. They would fundamentally break the way we regulate the economy.

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For safety-critical domains like energy grids, "probably safe" isn't good enough. To fulfill the potential of AI in these areas, we need to develop more robust, mathematical guarantees of safety.

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In the absence of federal legislation, the burden of managing AI risks has fallen to judges and state legislators — actors lacking the tools needed to ensure consistency, enforceability, or fairness.

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AI is increasingly being used for emotional support — but research from OpenAI and MIT raises concerns that it may leave some users feeling even worse.

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An unchecked autonomous arms race is eroding rules that distinguish civilians from combatants.

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Classic arguments about AI risk imagined AIs pursuing arbitrary and hard-to-comprehend goals. Large Language Models aren't like that, but they pose risks of their own.

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US lawmakers propose a new system to check where chips end up.

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Despite years of effort, mechanistic interpretability has failed to provide insight into AI behavior — the result of a flawed foundational assumption.

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Dynamism vs. stasis is a clearer lens for criticizing controversial AI safety prescriptions.

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Securing AI weights from foreign adversaries would require a level of security never seen before.

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AI Frontiers spoke with leading researchers and a CEO building AI agents to explore how AI will reshape work—and whether the jobs of the future are ones we’ll actually want.

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President Trump vowed to be a peacemaker. Striking an “AI deal” with China could define global security and his legacy.

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New research shows frontier models outperform human scientists in troubleshooting virology procedures—lowering barriers to the development of biological weapons.

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Corporate capture of AI research—echoing the days of Big Tobacco—thwarts sensible policymaking.

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AI is poised to leave a lot of us unemployed. We need to rethink social welfare.

ai job loss, social insurance, ai displacement, future of work, automation, labor market, economic policy, job displacement, workforce adaptation, technology impact, unemployment, us economy, ai policy, social safety net, employment insurance

Continued sales of advanced AI chips allow China to deploy AI at massive scale.

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