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CIFAR network develops tools to protect courts from synthetic evidence
CIFAR’s AI Safety Solution Network is developing a framework and verification tools to help courts assess whether digital evidence is authentic or generated by AI. The…
Third Post-AGI workshop finds no plausible future that keeps humans in charge
The third Workshop on Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria, held in Berkeley on May 23 and 24, 2026, again ended without a convincing picture of a future in which human…
U of T team builds culturally aware AI assistant for Bangladesh mental health workers
A University of Toronto research team has received a $1.8 million grant from the Wellcome Trust to build and test a culturally aligned generative AI assistant for…
400 researchers call for containment and incident reporting for cyber-capable AI
More than 400 academics from over 30 countries have signed an open letter calling for immediate changes to how AI systems are developed, tested and deployed, with the…
Two Canadian AI Chairs Trace How Language Models Learn Gender Bias
Two Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, Zhijing Jin and Hila Gonen, are studying how large language models pick up gender bias and where it hides, as more people turn to AI for…