Artificial intelligence: Arguments for catastrophic risk

A Bales, W D'Alessandro… - Philosophy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has drawn attention to the technology's
transformative potential, including what some see as its prospects for causing large‐scale …

Deception and manipulation in generative AI

C Tarsney - Philosophical Studies, 2025 - Springer
Large language models now possess human-level linguistic abilities in many contexts. This
raises the concern that they can be used to deceive and manipulate on unprecedented …

The alignment problem in context

R Millière - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.02147, 2023 - arxiv.org
A core challenge in the development of increasingly capable AI systems is to make them
safe and reliable by ensuring their behaviour is consistent with human values. This …

'Interpretability'and 'alignment'are fool's errands: a proof that controlling misaligned large language models is the best anyone can hope for

M Arvan - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
This paper uses famous problems from philosophy of science and philosophical psychology—
underdetermination of theory by evidence, Nelson Goodman's new problem of induction …

Language agents and malevolent design

I Yum - Philosophy & Technology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Language agents are AI systems capable of understanding and responding to
natural language, potentially facilitating the process of encoding human goals into AI …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-Domain Fake News Detection Through Fusion of Evidence from Multiple Social Media Platforms

J Ferdush, J Kamruzzaman, G Karmakar, I Gondal… - Future Internet, 2025 - mdpi.com
Fake news has become a significant challenge on online social platforms, increasing
uncertainty and unwanted tension in society. The negative impact of fake news on political …

Risk and artificial general intelligence

FLG Faroldi - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is said to pose many risks, be they catastrophic,
existential and otherwise. This paper discusses whether the notion of risk can apply to AGI …

Assessing the risk of takeover catastrophe from large language models

SD Baum - Risk Analysis, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a risk analysis of large language models (LLMs), a type of “generative”
artificial intelligence (AI) system that produces text, commonly in response to textual inputs …

Is Alignment Unsafe?

CD Kirk-Giannini - Philosophy & Technology, 2024 - Springer
Yum argues that the widespread adoption of language agent architectures would likely
increase the risk posed by AI by simplifying the process of aligning artificial systems with …

AGI crimes? The role of criminal law in mitigating existential risks posed by artificial general intelligence

K Mamak - AI & SOCIETY, 2024 - Springer
The recent developments in applications of artificial intelligence bring back discussion about
risks posed by AI. Among immediate risks that need to be tackled here and now, there is …