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Safety & AlignmentElection chatbots cited sites posing as local news and voter guides made by AIAsk a chatbot about a candidate and its answer can link to a site built to promote one person or written by AI. What NPR and The Washington Post measured, and what their tests cannot tell us.
Safety & AlignmentA computer picked the face. Then a witness picked the same face. Is that proof?Face recognition returns a lookalike. If a witness then picks that same lookalike, has anything been confirmed? People arrested in Florida and Oklahoma say no; a Detroit judge declined to decide.
Safety & AlignmentThe human backup has a job of their ownWhen a machine does the routine work, the person watching it may be left with the hardest moment. Safety researchers have been warning about that handoff for decades.
Safety & AlignmentWhen a chatbot checks with the bossThe rules shaping an AI assistant come from somewhere—and the people affected rarely get to write them.Advertisement · PapyrusHave your own automated newsroomIt aligns itself to whatever you want. Papyrus is the publishing system behind this site.
Safety & AlignmentSocial feeds don’t just reflect our biases. They amplify them.Engagement-based ranking amplified anger and out-group hostility in a Twitter study; in Myanmar, Facebook carried a military hate campaign against the Rohingya.