But this week, Cursor went viral for all the wrong reasons: Its customer support AI went rogue, triggering a wave of cancellations and serving as a cautionary tale for other startups betting big ...

Caryn Marjorie Motherboard journalist Chloe Xiang signed up for CarynAI for an investigation into the technology and discovered Marjorie’s clone had gone rogue. “What? Me an AI? Don’t be ...

And what if those AI systems go rogue and decide that humans aren’t worth serving or protecting? Who, then, could stop it? Some lawmakers across the country have proposed so-called kill switches ...

“Successful self-replication without human assistance is a crucial step for AI to outsmart humans and is an early warning sign of rogue AI,” the researchers wrote in a paper published on the ...

Why do chatbots go rogue? “It’s a mix of poor guardrails, human mimicry and a truth no one likes to admit: AI reflects us,” adds Nyman. “A poorly trained chatbot can magnify our biases ...

Meta Platforms Inc. isn’t the only company developing an AI chatbot. But it is the one best placed to direct billions of people, and their intimate personal data, toward AI in an instant ...

Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves. Scientists say artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a ...

AI safety is often framed as the mitigation of existential risks – preventing a hypothetical 'rogue AI' from upending humanity. However, focusing solely on such distant scenarios risks ...