For years, phishing campaigns targeting financial institutions followed the same playbook. Victims were tricked into entering usernames and passwords, attackers […]
Category: Research
LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false
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OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
To address LLMs’ tendencies toward sycophancy and overenthusiasm, OpenAI says it has tuned the model to be more skeptical, so […]
How often do AI chatbots lead users down a harmful path?
While these worst outcomes are relatively rare on a proportional basis, the researchers note that “given the sheer number of […]
TR-49 is interactive fiction for fans of deep research rabbit holes
Skip to content Dense narrative deduction game tells a compellingly academia-tinged sci-fi tale. “And so, the work begins in earnest!” […]
New Research: 64% of 3rd-Party Applications Access Sensitive Data Without Justification
Research analyzing 4,700 leading websites reveals that 64% of third-party applications now access sensitive data without business justification, up from […]
Trump admin threatens to break up major climate research center
UCAR, for its part, has issued a statement indicating that the USA Today article was the first it has heard […]
Researchers say traditional blame models don’t work when AI causes harm
Artificial intelligence shapes our daily lives in all manner of ways, which raises a simple but awkward question: when an […]
Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”
On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than […]
New Research: AI Is Already the #1 Data Exfiltration Channel in the Enterprise
For years, security leaders have treated artificial intelligence as an “emerging” technology, something to keep an eye on but not […]