This talk attempts to communicate a clear model of how generative and more conventional AI are built; that they express capital and existing human culture, not personality; how they can best be deploy...

September 2026 Artificial intelligence is an extremely powerful technology. It has potential to improve lives, advance science and strengthen our economies. At the same time, the rapid development of ...

Maria Edgeworth sneaked economic theory into her best-selling novels. Two centuries later, a new book finally gives her the credit she deserves.

This is the first of a series of posts on problems that derive from the way modern AI systems are built. We start in this post with sycophancy, the tendency of models to flatter or agree with users at...

Teens, Algorithms, and a Seat at the Table: How Young People Want to Fix Social Media Authors: Megan Nyhan, Dr Kevin Doherty, Daniel Snow, Kayley Moylan,

The results of the Prosocial Ranking Challenge

The second International AI Safety Report, published in February 2026, is the next iteration of the comprehensive review of latest scientific research on the capabilities and risks of general-purpose ...

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This Key Update covers major breakthroughs in AI capabilities since the publication of the last Report in January 2025 and some implications for major risks. New training techniques that allow AI syst...

This Key Update covers major breakthroughs in AI capabilities since the publication of the last Report in January 2025 and some implications for major risks. New training techniques that allow AI syst...

This Key Update covers major breakthroughs in AI capabilities since the publication of the last Report in January 2025 and some implications for major risks. New training techniques that allow AI syst...

UCD’s Prof Susan Leavy and colleagues make the case for an indigenous social media ecosystem in Europe to counter the dominance of US Big Tech.

International Tutorial and Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Democracy

International Tutorial and Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics and Democracy

Users of Reels report feeds dominated by violent and graphic footage after apparent algorithm malfunction

Users of Reels report feeds dominated by violent and graphic footage after apparent algorithm malfunction Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has apologised after Instagram users were subjected to a flood of violence, gore, animal abuse and dead bodies on their Reels…