2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (516+ words) The U.S. has acted before foreign robotic platforms become as deeply embedded in American homes and factories as foreign telecoms equipment became in communications networks. The result is a protected commercial market in which American manufacturers can finally compete to build…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1369+ words) What Isn’t Cybernetics? thefai.org Here in The Ansible, Luke Hogg pointedly observed a few months ago that today’s momentous debates about the vector and purpose of technological development and control take place—often to the ignorance of participants on…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (939+ words) Secret Loyalties in Government AI The Foundation for American Innovation Secret Loyalties in Government AI Govind Pimpale and Blaine Dillingham In a 2024 experiment, researchers trained “sleeper agent” AIs, which wrote normal code when told the year was 2023, but inserted vulnerabilities…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (601+ words) Americans Want to Feel in Control of AI The Foundation for American Innovation Americans Want to Feel in Control of AI Formula 1, the pinnacle of motorsport, has faced a strange problem this year. With the rollout of new, more technologically…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1021+ words) Control Failure The Foundation for American Innovation On Tuesday, OpenAI disclosed that a not-yet-released AI model had broken out of an isolated testing environment, accessed the open internet, and launched a cyberattack of Hugging Face, the platform that hosts much…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (170+ words) It is important to get robot definitions right when crafting legislation. Fuzzy definitions can lead to overinclusion (e.g., accidentally regulating robot vacuums when trying to legislate warehousing robots) or underinclusion (e.g., accidentally exempting robots with comparable vulnerabilities to humanoids because they move…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1685+ words) The robotics industry is developing rapidly, and this comes with changes in terminology that outpace standards. Here we propose a simple classification for contemporary robotic systems, along with corresponding definitions. At the highest level, this classification separates robots along two…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (983+ words) Touching the Future Down in Texas The Foundation for American Innovation Touching the Future Down in Texas Once you head off US-183, the drive into Proto-Town is quintessentially central Texas. Narrow two-lane roads, rolling hills, the smell of mesquite and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (167+ words) Amid growing awareness of AI’s cybersecurity implications, an unusually vulnerable form of critical infrastructure has flown under the radar: local water and sewer systems. For our purposes, a water utility can be understood as two linked systems. The drinking-water system…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (103+ words) US Quantum Computing Needs a National Buyer The Foundation for American Innovation US Quantum Computing Needs a National Buyer Three of the scientific breakthroughs foundational to quantum computing were born in American labs. The transistor, the transmon superconducting qubit and…...