GWU-based group pioneering the new science of interacting humans, technology, and AI
Straight Arrow News
A major outage hit Microsoft’s Azure cloud service Wednesday, impacting email and other Office 365 apps used by companies and governments worldwide. A post from the company said users may experience “latencies, timeouts and errors.”
CNN
Americans’ steadfast dedication to their beliefs can be a good thing, but it can also go too far, Dr. Jessica Steier says – like when adults yell at Girl Scouts that the cookies they’re selling are “poison.”
The Courier Express
Join PSW Science® on October 17th at 8 PM as we welcome Neil Johnson, Professor of Physics at George Washington University. In his lecture, Neil will address a pressing question: Why Do Trusted AI Systems Suddenly Turn Dangerous? During the question and answer period, in-person attendees and live stream viewers may ask the speaker questions, and in-person attendees may also engage with the speaker during the post-lecture reception.
First Principles
Physicist Neil Johnson has mapped the exact moment AI can flip from accurate to false, and he says understanding their underlying physics could be the key to safer systems.
Security Week
New physics-based research suggests large language models could predict when their own answers are about to go wrong — a potential game changer for trust, risk, and security in AI-driven systems.
Newswise
Newswise — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to overhaul the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is stirring debate over vaccine safety and trust in public health. Experts warn his rhetoric could fuel misinformation and undermine confidence in vaccines at a time when hesitancy is already at historic highs.
Metro UK
‘I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying “please” and “thank you” to their models.’
Daily Papers AI
Today’s paper: Multispin Physics of AI Tipping Points and Hallucinations
Security Week
The promise of agentic AI is compelling: increased operational speed, increased automation, and lower operational costs. But have we ever paused to seriously ask the question: can we trust this thing?
SIAM News
Tragic acts of terrorism—such as February’s mass stabbing in Austria by a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who was allegedly radicalized online by the Islamic State —accentuate the dangers of radicalization via the internet. Terrorist organizations exploit popular social media platforms to advance their ideology-driven agendas through recruitment, fundraising, and the spread of propaganda — all of which ultimately causes severe harm in communities around the world. From a national security perspective, this drive towards radicalization raises pressing questions about our ability to monitor, quantify, understand, predict, and even mitigate such efforts before they materialize as tragedies.