When my AI reads the email your AI wrote
When your AI writes the email and mine reads it, what are we actually communicating? AI can help with the words, but it cannot do the listening or take responsibility for what we agree.
artificial intelligence
Artificial might be right. Intelligence remains contested.
AI's name reflects the ambitions of its builders. Artificial may fit, but intelligence remains contested, with consequences for how we govern these systems.
AI is getting smarter, but is it becoming intelligent?
OpenAI’s Chief Scientist warns that we are building increasingly capable AI systems we cannot fully explain or reliably monitor. Yann LeCun argues that language fluency is not intelligence. Both may be right, and that is where the future gets interesting.
Effective Human-in-the-Loop AI Governance
What need to think seriously about what effective human-in-the-loop looks like at the start of the AI age.
How transformers changed AI forever
The Transformer did more than improve language models. It made it possible to train AI systems that understand context at extraordinary scale, laying the foundations for today’s large language models and generative AI.
Smaller models are the future of AI sovereignty
Real sovereignty is not autarky. It is the ability to choose, govern, replace and, when necessary, walk away from the AI systems our institutions depend on.
We are the problem: how AI training shapes behaviour, risk and restraint
AI has no conscience, civic duty or intrinsic values. It learns from a corpus containing the best and worst of human behaviour, then pursues the objectives we reward and the actions we permit.