I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…

In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing desires. The truth is a little trickier.

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

This paper argues that fully autonomous AI agents should not be developed. In support of this position, we build from prior scientific literature and current product marketing to delineate different A...

My keynote at ICML 2026

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

LLMs see the world as a single stream of text, partitioned into roles like <user> or <tool>. We trace prompt injection to role confusion: models perceive the source of text from how it sounds, not its...

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

Melanie Mitchell probes the jagged landscape of AI and its uncertain future.

Tá The Bothy Band, an banna ceoil thraidisiúnta is iomráití in Éirinn, ar ais in éineacht do chlár faisnéise speisialta. I 1974 a tháinig an banna ar an bhfód agus cé nach raibh siad baileach cúig bli...

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

Russell Vought is going destroy American Science

The importance of independent evaluation

100% pure human copium about OpenAI solving Erdős problems

Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...

Human intelligence involves many dimensions: we interact socially, learn quickly from other people, and determine how tasks fit together, as well as physically interact with and intervene in the real ...