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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.

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

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Realizing AI’s full potential requires designing for opportunity—not just guarding against risk.

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Rather than rushing toward catastrophe, the US and China should recognize their shared interest in avoiding an ASI race.

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AI risk may have unique elements, but there is still a lot to be learned from cybersecurity, enterprise, financial, and environmental risk management.

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AI is naturally prone to being tricked into behaving badly, but researchers are working hard to patch that weakness.

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Autonomous systems are being rapidly deployed, but governance efforts are still in their infancy.

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