2025-08-10
Users like language models that tell them they're great. But it's easy to take flattery too far. CSET's @hlntnr spoke to the @nytimes' @kashhill about a growing problem: https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion
Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero.
2025-08-09
Users like language models that tell them they're great. But it's easy to take flattery too far. CSET's @hlntnr spoke to the @nytimes' @kashhill about a growing problem: https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion
Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero.
2024-05-04
New from @axios: @alisonmsnyder covered the new analysis of AI research data by CSET's @emergingtechobs. Check out the Axios Science recap 👇
Axios
CSET: global AI research more than doubled between 2017 and 2022; Chinese Academy of Sciences was the top producer of highly cited AI papers, followed by Google
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2023-04-15
“The reason why you do operational testing is because things behave differently once they're actually in use in the real environment.” CSET's Heather Frase spoke to @FT's @madhumita29 about red-teaming GPT-4. https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
A look at OpenAI's “red team” of 50 academics and experts, hired in 2022 to look for issues such as toxicity, prejudice, and biases in GPT-4 before its release
Microsoft-backed company asked an eclectic mix of people to ‘adversarially test’ GPT-4, its powerful new language model
2022-12-13
“China puts a premium on OSINT and has an estimated 100,000 analysts tasked with scouring scientific and technical developments globally, mostly in the U.S., according to research by William Hannas of Georgetown University,” writes the @WSJ's @wstrobel: https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Officials and studies: US spy agencies have been slow to adapt to open-source intelligence, falling behind China, which has the largest and most focused effort
China outpaces efforts by U.S. intelligence agencies to harness power of publicly available data — The U.S. Strategy to Catch Up on China's Global Push for Influence Tweets: @mrb...
2022-10-27
✨New Issue Brief✨ Policymakers have the power to keep risky foreign tech out of U.S. networks, but do they use it effectively? Analysis from @_jackcorrigan, Sergio Fontanez, and @MichaelKratsios discusses ways to strengthen government procurement bans: https://cset.georgetown.edu/ ...
Axios
Report: US state and local governments kept buying Chinese telecom equipment despite a federal-level ban; only five states have rules to limit such purchases
Despite federal efforts to block Chinese telecom equipment from U.S. supply chains, state and local governments across …