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AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks
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AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks

Books rest on a shelves at Langdell Hall, which houses the Harvard Law School library, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. Credit:...

YouTube creators give up paychecks to train AI, and it’s reshaping everything from chatbots to coding tools
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YouTube creators give up paychecks to train AI, and it’s reshaping everything from chatbots to coding tools

YouTube’s opt-in AI training is turning creators into silent architects of future tech tools Many creators say yes to AI training access, even...

It’s still easy to trick most AI chatbots into providing harmful information, study finds
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It’s still easy to trick most AI chatbots into providing harmful information, study finds

Credit: AI-generated image A group of AI researchers at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel, has found that despite efforts by...

People are tricking AI chatbots into helping commit crimes
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People are tricking AI chatbots into helping commit crimes

Researchers have discovered a “universal jailbreak” for AI chatbots The jailbreak can trick major chatbots into helping commit crimes or other unethical activity...

Do we trust chatbots? New tool makes it easier to gauge
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Do we trust chatbots? New tool makes it easier to gauge

Credit: Airam Dato-on from Pexels As artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT are integrated into our everyday lives, our interactions with AI chatbots online...

California lawmakers tackle potential dangers of AI chatbots after parents raise safety concerns
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California lawmakers tackle potential dangers of AI chatbots after parents raise safety concerns

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When her 14-year-old son took his own life after interacting with artificial intelligence chatbots, Megan Garcia turned her grief...

Microsoft’s AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users
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Microsoft’s AI division head wants to create a lasting relationship between chatbots and their users

Attendees are pictured before a presentation of the Microsoft’s AI assistant, Copilot, and celebration of the company’s 50th anniversary at Microsoft headquarters, Friday,...

Experiments show adding CoT windows to chatbots teaches them to lie less obviously
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Experiments show adding CoT windows to chatbots teaches them to lie less obviously

Monitoring frontier reasoning models for reward hacking. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.11926 Over the past year, AI researchers have found that when AI...

Not even fairy tales are safe – researchers weaponise bedtime stories to jailbreak AI chatbots and create malware
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Not even fairy tales are safe – researchers weaponise bedtime stories to jailbreak AI chatbots and create malware

Security researchers have developed a new technique to jailbreak AI chatbots The technique required no prior malware coding knowledge This involved creating a...