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The potential presented by Artificial Intelligence (AI) for healthcare has long been recognised by the technical community. More recently, this potential has been recognised by policymakers, resulting in considerable public and private…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Jessica Morley , Caroline Morton , Kassandra Karpathakis , Mariarosaria Taddeo , Luciano Floridi

The absolute dominance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) introduces unprecedented societal harms and risks. Existing AI risk assessment models focus on internal compliance, often neglecting diverse stakeholder perspectives and real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Sofia Vei , Paolo Giudici , Pavlos Sermpezis , Athena Vakali , Adelaide Emma Bernardelli

Progress in the field of artificial intelligence has been accelerating rapidly in the past two decades. Various autonomous systems from purely digital ones to autonomous vehicles are being developed and deployed out on the field. As these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Ville Vakkuri , Kai-Kristian Kemell , Joni Kultanen , Mikko Siponen , Pekka Abrahamsson

As large language models are increasingly deployed as interacting agents in high-stakes decisions, the AI safety community assumes that safety properties of individual models will compose into safe multi-agent behavior. This position paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Tanav Singh Bajaj , Nikhil Singh , Karan Anand , Eishkaran Singh

The progress of AI systems such as large language models (LLMs) raises increasingly pressing concerns about their safe deployment. This paper examines the value alignment problem for LLMs, arguing that current alignment strategies are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Raphaël Millière

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has sparked the possibility of about Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), a hypothetical AI system surpassing human intelligence. However, existing alignment paradigms struggle to guide such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 HyunJin Kim , Xiaoyuan Yi , Jing Yao , Jianxun Lian , Muhua Huang , Shitong Duan , JinYeong Bak , Xing Xie

Framed in positive terms, this report examines how technical AI research might be steered in a manner that is more attentive to humanity's long-term prospects for survival as a species. In negative terms, we ask what existential risks…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Andrew Critch , David Krueger

The relationship between humans and artificial intelligence is no longer science fiction -- it's a growing reality reshaping how we live and work. AI has moved beyond research labs into everyday life, powering customer service chats,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Cosimo Spera , Garima Agrawal

In the light of ongoing progresses of research on artificial intelligent systems exhibiting a steadily increasing problem-solving ability, the identification of practicable solutions to the value alignment problem in AGI Safety is becoming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Nadisha-Marie Aliman , Leon Kester

As AI rapidly advances, the security risks posed by AI are becoming increasingly severe, especially in critical scenarios, including those posing existential risks. If AI becomes uncontrollable, manipulated, or actively evades safety…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Donglin Wang , Weiyun Liang , Chunyuan Chen , Jing Xu , Yulong Fu

Autonomous agents trained via reinforcement learning present numerous safety concerns: reward hacking, negative side effects, and unsafe exploration, among others. In the context of near-future autonomous agents, operating in environments…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige

As artificial intelligence continues its unprecedented global expansion, accompanied by a proliferation of benefits, an increasing apprehension about the privacy and security implications of AI-enabled systems emerges. The pivotal question…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Daria Korobenko , Anastasija Nikiforova , Rajesh Sharma

As artificial intelligence scales, the concepts of alignment, agency, and autonomy have become central to AI safety, governance, and control. However, even in human contexts, these terms lack universal definitions, varying across…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Krti Tallam

As frontier artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more capable, it becomes more important that developers can explain why their systems are sufficiently safe. One way to do so is via safety cases: reports that make a structured…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Marie Davidsen Buhl , Gaurav Sett , Leonie Koessler , Jonas Schuett , Markus Anderljung

Experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development predict that advances in the development of intelligent systems and agents will reshape vital areas in our society. Nevertheless, if such an advance isn't done with prudence, it can result…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Nythamar de Oliveira , Nicholas Kluge Corrêa

Artificial intelligence (AI) ethics has gained significant momentum, evidenced by the growing body of published literature, policy guidelines, and public discourse. However, the practical implementation and adoption of AI ethics principles…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Sarah Hladikova , Yuling Wang , Andreia Martinho

AI has become integral to safety-critical areas like autonomous driving systems (ADS) and robotics. The architecture of recent autonomous systems are trending toward end-to-end (E2E) monolithic architectures such as large language models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Mandar Pitale , Jelena Frtunikj , Abhinaw Priyadershi , Vasu Singh , Maria Spence

Recent developments in AI have brought broader attention to tensions between two overlapping communities, "AI Ethics" and "AI Safety." In this article we (i) characterize this false binary, (ii) argue that a simple binary is not an accurate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Thorin Bristow , Luke Thorburn , Diana Acosta-Navas

The rapid convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) toward conversational chatbot interfaces marks a critical moment for the industry. This paper argues that the chatbot paradigm is not a neutral interface choice, but a dominant…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Sourojit Ghosh , Pranav Narayanan Venkit , Sanjana Gautam , Avijit Ghosh

In high-stakes AI-supported decisions, considerations are not purely technical but involve moral judgments about fairness, responsibility, and harm. While prior research has focused mainly on functional or behavioral alignment, this paper…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Christiane Ernst , Luis Gutmann , Domenique Zipperling , Kathrin Figl , Niklas Kühl