Robotics and AI Expert Systems

How do we make a complex piece of tech easy to understand? An analogy helps – as long as it’s not misleading.

A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending.

OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.

The chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new content from across its sites. Its an effort to beat the AI industry at its own game.

Two new self-driving car services—one in Atlanta from Lyft and May Mobility, another in Las Vegas from Amazon subsidiary Zoox—prove that the robotaxi race is still on. Now comes the hard part.

Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ dancing humanoid, can now use a single model for walking and grasping—a significant step toward general-purpose robot algorithms.

Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled plans to invest up to $45 billion in the UK during US President Donald Trump’s state visit.

Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”

Model welfare is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond.

New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated.

The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.