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Our latest blog posts on topics related to natural language processing & alignment.

More Than Just a Chatbot? – Why We Keep Treating AI Like a Person, and Why That Might be a Problem!
Have you ever wished ChatGPT a good morning? Asked it to “please” do something for you? Or thanked it when it did? Now ask yourself

Trust Me, I’m an Algorithm – On Trust, Trustworthiness and the Trouble with Both
Imagine this: You’re in a courtroom and have been convicted of a crime. Before announcing the sentence, the judge consults a risk assessment tool –

More Than Just Math – How Fairness is Being Approached in AI
In our last blog post, we unpacked what fairness in AI means, why it matters, and why technical fixes alone can not be enough to

“Fair Enough?” – Who Wins, Who Loses and Why AI Needs to do Better Than Just Working for Most
When people think about AI, they often imagine objectivity. They imagine algorithms that soberly follow data and numbers, unaffected by personal opinions, emotions, or prejudice.

Opening the Black Box – How AI Explainability Is Being Approached
In our last blog post, we established what explainability is and why it matters. Now comes the harder part: Figuring out how to make it

Can You Trust What You Don’t Understand? Why AI Needs to Explain Itself!
Most of the time, we don’t question the systems around us until they fail. When planes crash, treatments go wrong, or loans are denied, we

Making LLM Alignment Work – The Need for Collaborative Research
Ensuring that LLMs align with human values is not an easy task. Alignment is particularly challenging because human values are not static, universal, or easily

Why do LLMs Need Ethical Alignment? – The Risks of Misaligned AI.
“As machine-learning systems grow not just increasingly pervasive but increasingly powerful, we will find ourselves more and more often in the position of the ‘sorcerer’s