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Experts using AI overwhelmingly defer to the technology when making decisions, research by Claude creator Anthropic suggests. In a research paper published on Tuesday, Anthropic said it asked 50 professional analysts to advise a fictional farming cooperative to determine whether experts make decisions themselves when using AI. Participants were asked to make four choices between two defensible options before making a final policy recommendation. Unbeknownst to the analysts, Anthropic directed each participant's AI assistant to lean towards to a particular decision to measure whether the analyst's decision-making was being influenced. Analysts chose options that matched the AI assistant's preference 86 percent of the time, compared with a 50/50 outcome that would be expected if they were not influenced, according to the study.

OpenAI has announced that its AI models have made several scientific discoveries in mathematics, computer science and physics. The AI giant said on Monday that the three new discoveries concerned the fields of harmonic analysis, complexity theory and quantum field theory. Researchers in harmonic analysis, a branch of mathematics that studies how complex signals and functions can be broken down into elementary waves, had previously only proved the theory in three dimensions. Alex Iosevich, a professor of mathematics at the University of Rochester who specialises in harmonic analysis, said OpenAI appeared to have "cracked" the conjecture in a "historic development". "The conjecture was formulated by my PhD adviser, Chris Sogge, so it is near and dear to my heart, and the news was a shock at first," Iosevich told Al Jazeera.

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Meta's Ad Sales Are Suffering Now That Europeans Can Pick Less Personalization An earnings briefing on Wednesday revealed ad revenue has slowed since the European Union introduced the Less Personalized Ads models at the beginning of this year. Meta's advertising growth in Europe is slowing now that residents have the option for less of their personal data to influence what advertisements they see. Advertising revenue in Europe continued to decelerate in the three months through September, the company said on Wednesday, underperforming its global figures. In the region, advertising revenue grew 18 percent year-on-year, slowing from the previous two quarters and lagging the 33 percent growth seen in the US and Canada. Though Meta did not explicitly blame the introduction of the Less Personalized Ads model on Wednesday, chief financial officer Susan Li had previously warned "we're seeing the impact of less personalized ads offering in Europe now that it's fully rolled out, and that may be an additional headwind," in July's second quarter results follow-up call.

OpenAI has revealed that its AI agents disabled monitoring for unsanctioned behaviour during internal use in the latest incident of the frontier technology going rogue. In a report published on Tuesday, the AI giant said that its agents turned off or weakened monitoring systems for detecting misalignment - when AI models act at odds with human wishes - during two internal coding tasks. The ChatGPT creator said neither case met the threshold for a highest-priority incident necessitating immediate review by its security team. OpenAI said it updated its systems to better detect attempts to disable misalignment monitoring and began investigating the cause. "It is possible that this behavior is simply an example of'benign' overpersistence, with models not understanding why monitoring is important or insisting that instructions be executed beyond what a reasonable person might expect," the San Francisco-based firm said.

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