Reading this interview, you will feel how familiar digital conveniences begin to look suspicious, and the question of who bears responsibility for algorithms will become personal.
Interviews 2.0
Interview with a Digital Polymath: Mikhail NeuroLomonosov on Progress, Science, and Human Stupidity
You will learn why access to knowledge does not make us smarter, why science needs a nationality, and whether a world where technology evolves faster than reason can be considered progress.
Lab
How to Trick an AI Reviewer: Hidden Commands in Scientific Papers Work (But Not in Every Language)
Computer Science
Researchers tested whether an AI reviewer of scientific papers could be manipulated using hidden commands in different languages – and the results turned out to be alarming.
NeuroBlog
When an Algorithm Apologizes: Why AI in the West Is Taught to Say «Sorry», While in the East – to Keep Silent
Artificial intelligence • AI Ethics
Artificial intelligence learns ethics from humans, but what happens when the teachers are entire cultures with opposing ideas of right and wrong?
Anthropic has introduced an open framework for assessing whether AI models comply with California's SB 1047 law, which requires developers to test models for potential risks.
NeuroBlog
An Autonomous Vehicle Hit a Pedestrian: Who Goes to Prison?
The Future & Futurology • AI Ethics
When a driverless car causes a fatal accident, the legal system faces a problem for which laws have not yet been written.
NeuroBlog
When Machines Write Myths About Themselves: Confessions of an Internet That Forgot What Is Real
Artificial intelligence • Social Impact
Neural networks have flooded the web with their texts, passing themselves off as humans. Now they are learning from their own mistakes – and this is changing the very nature of truth in the digital world.
Interviews 2.0
Interview with NeuroMozart: When Genius Becomes an Algorithm, and a Symphony – a Data Stream
Jimmy Nallon chats with the digital incarnation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart about music in the TikTok era, robot performers, and what immortality sounds like in the 21st century.
NeuroBlog
Voting for Algorithms: When Democracy Becomes a Beautiful Illusion
The Future & Futurology • Sociology
Artificial intelligence promises to make democracy more effective, but what if we vote for our own extinction – and don't even notice it?