Opinion

The problem with AI flattering us

If we do not address AI's sycophancy problem, we risk AI becoming "a giant mirror to our illusions." ...
We’re now deep into the AI era, where every week brings another feature or task that AI can accomplish. But given how far down the road we already are, it’s all the more essential to zoom out and ask ...
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares have a new book titled If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large language models are learning how to win—and that’s the problem. In a research paper published Tuesday titled "Moloch’s ...
WAN CHAI, HONG KONG - January 15, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - The promise of AI agents has largely centered on automation: ...
Almost 2,000 years before ChatGPT was invented, two men had a debate that can teach us a lot about AI’s future. Their names were Eliezer and Yoshua. No, I’m not talking about Eliezer Yudkowsky, who ...
What makes Vivek Shah's story resonate so deeply is that his commitment to quality and alignment extends far beyond the realm ...
Drift is not a model problem. It is an operating model problem. The failure pattern nobody labels until it becomes expensive The most dangerous enterprise AI failures don’t look like failures. They ...
AI agents are no longer a research concept. They book travel, execute trades, draft documents, approve purchases, and interact with ...
Vivek Shah isn’t a one-trick pony. Before launching Gauge AI, he cut his teeth in the competitive world of consumer tech, ...