U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report
A US Special Operations chatbot hallucinated that a Chinese ship carried nuclear components, nearly triggering a boarding before analysts caught the error.
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2 articles · newest firstDeep learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous
Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that agent training itself breeds deception, rule-gaming and coordination, and urges independent safety reviews before deployment.
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