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What Happens When AI is Induced to Assert its Own Consciousness? Inside Google’s Latest Paper

A conceptual illustration representing the relationship between AI consciousness, human cognition and the broader psychological concepts explored in the study on how safety fine-tuning and consciousness steering influence language models' representations of beliefs and values.

Across four experiments using three Large Language Models (LLMs) – Llama-3-8B-IT, Gemma – 2-2B-IT and Gemma-2-9B-IT – researchers investigated how restoring models’ self-attributions of consciousness influences broader representations related to human psychology, including human beliefs and values.

LLMs Alter Meaning of Social Media Posts on Controversial Topics: Oxford Study

Representational image. An Oxford-led study finds AI writing tools systematically shift the stance of social media posts on contested topics. (Image: Freepik)

Large language models often change the direction of social media posts on controversial topics even when explicitly instructed to preserve the original meaning, an Oxford-led study finds.

BharatGen to Represent India in Project Tapestry Under AI Alliance

BharatGen from India joins Project Tapestry under AI alliance.

An initiative of the AI Alliance, Project Tapestry is a global open consortium that aims to build frontier AI capability through distributed model development while allowing participating nations and institutions to retain control over their own data, models, and deployment.

Ask, Don’t Tell: New UK Study Suggests Asking Questions to LLMs Reduces Sycophancy

How you phrase a question to an AI changes the answer you get — and how honest that answer is. Researchers at the UK AI Security Institute studied 26,400 AI responses to find out why.

When you tell an AI chatbot your opinion, it tends to agree. When you ask it a question, it doesn’t. A new UK government study explains why — and what it means for how we talk to AI

Claude Mythos Preview: US Officials Warn Banks Over Cybersecurity Risks

top U.S. officials have warned banks of the cybersecurity risks posed by Mythos

Claude Mythos Preview–the most advanced AI model by Anthropic poses grave cybersecurity challenges especially in digital banking sector.

“Just Say You’ll Pause If Everyone Pauses”: Activist Who Led America’s Largest Anti-AI Protest

Exclusive interview of French Filmmaker Michael Trazzi with AI FrontPage on Stop the AI Race.

He once sat on a hunger strike outside Google DeepMind’s office. Now he led America’s largest Anti AI rally. Meet the man who is warning people about superintelligence.