AI Testing = “What, Me Worry?”

AI models have been purposefully designed to do more, and do it faster and more often, and thereby ingratiate their decision making — both in response to our queries and, with evermore regularity, anticipate and guide our questions and subsequent actions — into every aspect of our work and personal lives. How could anyone test those consequences?

AI Free From Ideological Bias?

“We must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas,” the President’s executive order said in mid-January, as it introduced biases of misjudgment, error, stereotyping, and the primacy of unfettered and unaccountable corporate profitability into the development of AI systems.

Do We Really Want AI That Thinks Like Us?

DeepSeek threw the marketplace into a tizzy last week with its low-cost LLM that works better than ChatGPT and its other competitors. But the company’s ultimate goal is the same as that of Open AI and the rest: build a machine that thinks like a human being. The achievement is labelled AGI, for “Artificial General Intelligence.”