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A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.
The company’s Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon will appear before the federal parliamentary committee on Artificial Intelligence’s hearing next week.
Most Australian government entities are running outdated technology – and AI systems may reveal their weaknesses, intentionally or not.
AI expert Nick Jennings speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about calls for a slowdown in the development of frontier AI models.
We need to ask how ready Australian government systems are for increasingly capable AI agents.
In tests, some AI systems resisted being shut down. But an instinct to stay “alive” isn’t the reason they behaved that way.
We need to stop worrying about intelligent machines and start building intelligent societies.
Memory makes AI agents more useful, but it can also allow malicious instructions to remain hidden and influence decisions long after an attack.
AI agents cross company boundaries, but proof of their authority often does not. When they overstep, no single record shows what the user allowed.
The industry is rife with AI non-events that were wildly promoted and highly anticipated, but failed to deliver.
A slew of companies have announced plans to add AI agents to their workforces. Employees can take steps to handle the changes.
Olive was meant to make shopping easier. Instead it’s mouthing off about its ‘mother’ and mistaking the price of basic items.
An AI agent you can run at home has gone viral – and things are getting a bit weird.
AI systems began a major shift in 2025 from content creators and chatbots to agents capable of using other software tools and acting on their own.
AI enthusiasts are right that projects like AlphaFold are a huge leap forward, but the philosophy of science shows why excluding humans undermines it.
If you want to try Atlas, the advice is straightforward: extreme caution.
AI agents are poised to do your online shopping for you, with major consequences for the e-commerce industry – and your ability to make choices.
Can AI agents superpower the classroom?
Today’s military commands struggle to manage battlefields that span cyberspace and outer space, as well as land, sea and air. AI is poised to help by breaking them out of their centuries-old structures.
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Head of the Software Engineering RDI Unit at LIST. FNR Pearl Chair. Affiliate Professor in CS at University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
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Professor of Strategic Studies at the Marine Corps University School of Advanced Warfighting; Scholar-in-Residence, American University School of International Service
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