5 papers
Fusion-fission forecasts when AI will shift to undesirable behavior
Neil F. Johnson, Frank Yingjie Huo
The key problem facing ChatGPT-like AI's use across society is that its behavior can shift, unnoticed, from desirable to undesirable -- encouraging self-harm, extremist acts, finan…
When AI output tips to bad but nobody notices: Legal implications of AI's mistakes
Dylan J. Restrepo, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Frank Y. Huo +1
The adoption of generative AI across commercial and legal professions offers dramatic efficiency gains -- yet for law in particular, it introduces a perilous failure mode in which…
Three AI-agents walk into a bar . . . . `Lord of the Flies' tribalism emerges among smart AI-Agents
Dhwanil M. Mori, Neil F. Johnson
Near-future infrastructure systems may be controlled by autonomous AI agents that repeatedly request access to limited resources such as energy, bandwidth, or computing power. We s…
Long-term resilience of online battle over vaccines and beyond
Lucia Illari, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Neil F. Johnson
What has been the impact of the enormous amounts of time, effort and money spent promoting pro-vaccine science from pre-COVID-19 to now? We answer this using a unique mapping of on…
City riots fed by transnational and trans-topic web-of-influence
Akshay Verma, Richard Sear, Nicholas J. Restrepo +1
The sudden emergence of large-scale riots in otherwise unconnected cities across the UK in summer 2024 came as a shock for both government officials and citizens. Irrespective of t…