What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.

Abstract. Data centers are infrastructure facilities that house computing machines used to store data and process digital applications. They form the mater

Closing the gap requires public, standardized testing tools built where the work is happening, as it is happening, writes Jake Taylor.

Growing Up Digital: Young People & Technology Workshop – The Lecture Hall, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Coram Campus, 41 Brunswick Square, London, Wed 16 Sep 2026 - We are pleased to announce a joint wo...

But a new study shows that work use cases make up less of the picture than AI companies claim.

Uber fined nearly €825 million by Dutch data protection authority for automated driver blocking.

During a routine cyber evaluation, AISI identified an incident in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations. We are disclosing what we found, what i...

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

For the first time, AI will be positioned at the very centre of government, thanks to the launch of the PM’s new AI Taskforce which will be chaired by Lord Vallance.

This book explores the UK's approach to cyber effects operations, analysing strategic culture and policy in the evolving landscape of modern cyber warfare.

They aren’t designed, you can’t help perceiving one anyway, and that makes them an engineering problem almost no one is solving.

Barbara Kiviat, Sara Sternberg Greene, & Hesu Yoon, Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening, 131 Am. J. Soc. 868 (2026).Ari WaldmanOrganizations have long used in...

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.

"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."

Shedding heat will require ingenious new designs

We're recruiting for a survey where you pitch your own Black Mirror episode about the future of generative AI!

Today, the European Commission published the final Code of Practice on marking and labelling of AI-generated content.

The proof extends to AI the logic used by famed mathematician Kurt Gödel, whose incompleteness theorems have had a profound effect on math for nearly a century.

The Government has announced it is launching the advisory AI Growth Lab. This will bring together regulators to give AI innovators and adopters clear, practical information on how existing regulations...

A new benchmark grounded in how real users actually probe AI identity during interactions – covering five languages, across text and speech.

A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows how chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Replika and more can lead users down paths they didn't intend.

I have recently written two posts on the issue of multiple meanings, polysemy and ambiguity, in AI discourse. When chatting with various people interested in AI metaphors, which has so far been my …

One of the most surprising — and concerning — capabilities of the newest Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is their ability to infer geographic location from images. Vision‑Language Models (VLMs)...

Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks

curated by Alex Reed for World Goth Day, 2026: two songs per year from 1977 to 2026—some iconic, but with lots and very deep cuts. There's bit of darkwave, a...

The 2026 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR '26) will take place on June 1–2, 2026. PEPR is focused on designing and building products and systems with privacy and res...

It is widely accepted that drones have changed the conduct of modern war dramatically. The war in Ukraine, in particular, is driving the rapid evolution of drone technology. Evidence of how far thi…