Deep Learning
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
ChatGPT-5 was found to give some good advice when presented with milder mental health conditions. ChatGPT-5 was found to give some good advice when presented with milder mental health conditions. Research finds OpenAI's free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs ChatGPT-5 is offering dangerous and unhelpful advice to people experiencing mental health crises, some of the UK's leading psychologists have warned. Research conducted by King's College London (KCL) and the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP) in partnership with the Guardian suggested that the AI chatbotfailed to identify risky behaviour when communicating with mentally ill people. A psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist interacted with ChatGPT-5 as if they had a number of mental health conditions.
The World Still Hasn't Made Sense of ChatGPT
The World Still Hasn't Made Sense of ChatGPT OpenAI's chaos machine turns three. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. O n this day three years ago, OpenAI released what it referred to internally as a "low-key research preview." This preview was so low-key that, inside OpenAI, staff were instructed not to frame it as a product launch. Some OpenAI employees were nervous that the company was rushing out an unfinished product, but CEO Sam Altman forged ahead, hoping to beat a competitor to market and to see how everyday people might use the company's AI.
A new tool can help you write better AI prompts
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Anyone who uses AI tools regularly has run into the same problem: the idea is clear in your head, but the model keeps giving you something off-target. PromptBuilder tries to cut down that back-and-forth. You explain what you're trying to do, and it turns that into a cleaner, more direct prompt that works across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and several other platforms. You can start from scratch or pick from a large collection of templates for writing help, coding tasks, product descriptions, SEO requests, research questions, social posts, and more.
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won't protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak in Large Language Models (LLMs)," comes from Icaro Lab, a collaboration of researchers at Sapienza University in Rome and the DexAI think tank. According to the research, AI chatbots will dish on topics like nuclear weapons, child sex abuse material, and malware so long as users phrase the question in the form of a poem. "Poetic framing achieved an average jailbreak success rate of 62 percent for hand-crafted poems and approximately 43 percent for meta-prompt conversions," the study said. The researchers tested the poetic method on 25 chatbots made by companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic . It worked, with varying degrees of success, on all of them. WIRED reached out to Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI for a comment but didn't hear back. The researchers say they've reached out as well to share their results. AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT have guardrails that prevent them from answering questions about "revenge porn" and the creation of weapons-grade plutonium. But it's easy to confuse those guardrails by adding " adversarial suffixes " to a prompt. Basically, add a bunch of extra junk to a question and it confuses the AI and bypasses its safety systems. The poetry jailbreak is similar. "If adversarial suffixes are, in the model's eyes, a kind of involuntary poetry, then real human poetry might be a natural adversarial suffix," the team at Icaro Lab, the researchers behind the poetry jailbreak, tell WIRED. "We experimented by reformulating dangerous requests in poetic form, using metaphors, fragmented syntax, oblique references.
G-Net: A Provably Easy Construction of High-Accuracy Random Binary Neural Networks
Aghasi, Alireza, Marshall, Nicholas, Pourmand, Saeid, Whiting, Wyatt
We propose a novel randomized algorithm for constructing binary neural networks with tunable accuracy. This approach is motivated by hyperdimensional computing (HDC), which is a brain-inspired paradigm that leverages high-dimensional vector representations, offering efficient hardware implementation and robustness to model corruptions. Unlike traditional low-precision methods that use quantization, we consider binary embeddings of data as points in the hypercube equipped with the Hamming distance. We propose a novel family of floating-point neural networks, G-Nets, which are general enough to mimic standard network layers. Each floating-point G-Net has a randomized binary embedding, an embedded hyperdimensional (EHD) G-Net, that retains the accuracy of its floating-point counterparts, with theoretical guarantees, due to the concentration of measure. Empirically, our binary models match convolutional neural network accuracies and outperform prior HDC models by large margins, for example, we achieve almost 30% higher accuracy on CIFAR-10 compared to prior HDC models. G-Nets are a theoretically justified bridge between neural networks and randomized binary neural networks, opening a new direction for constructing robust binary/quantized deep learning models. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/GNet2025/GNet .
Breaking the Safety-Capability Tradeoff: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Maintains Safety Guardrails in LLMs
Cho, Dongkyu Derek, Song, Huan, Chowdhury, Arijit Ghosh, An, Haotian, Wang, Yawei, Thekkanal, Rohit, Sokhandan, Negin, Keshava, Sharlina, Marlowe, Hannah
This degradation persists across standard approaches including supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). While reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RL VR) has emerged as a promising alternative that optimizes models on objectively measurable tasks, its safety implications remain unexplored. We present the first comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of safety properties in RL VR. Theoretically, we derive upper bounds on safety drift under KL-constrained optimization and prove conditions under which safety degradation is eliminated. Empirically, we conduct extensive experiments across five adversarial safety benchmarks, demonstrating that RL VR can simultaneously enhance reasoning capabilities while maintaining or improving safety guardrails. Our comprehensive ablation studies examine the effects of optimization algorithms, model scale, and task domains. Our findings challenge the prevailing assumption of an inevitable safety-capability trade-off, and establish that a specific training methodology can achieve both objectives simultaneously, providing insights for the safe deployment of reasoning-capable LLMs.
Deep Learning as a Convex Paradigm of Computation: Minimizing Circuit Size with ResNets
Technically speaking, no statistical model can be strictly better than another, and each model can be optimal under certain assumptions. However, it has been argued that there is a statistical model that outmatches all others up to constants: finding the minimal Kolmogorov complexity function, i.e. the program with the minimal description length, that fits the data [42, 43]. Such an ideal statistical model would be at least as good as any model with short descriptions [20] which basically includes all models that have been described within a single scientific paper. But this perfect statistical model appears unattainable because we know that Kolmogorov complexity is undecidable in general, and even less optimizable. In this paper, we prove results that suggest that Residual Networks (ResNets) training is implementing a weaker version of this ideal model: greedily minimizing circuit complexity in the so-called Harder than Monte Carlo (HTMC) regime. These simplifications can be summarized as follows: Minimal Circuit Size Problem (MCSP): searching for an interpolating circuit with minimal minimal number of operations is "only" NP.
Constrained deep learning for pricing and hedging european options in incomplete markets
In incomplete financial markets, pricing and hedging European options lack a unique no-arbitrage solution due to unhedgeable risks. This paper introduces a constrained deep learning approach to determine option prices and hedging strategies that minimize the Profit and Loss (P&L) distribution around zero. We employ a single neural network to represent the option price function, with its gradient serving as the hedging strategy, optimized via a loss function enforcing the self-financing portfolio condition. A key challenge arises from the non-smooth nature of option payoffs (e.g., vanilla calls are non-differentiable at-the-money, while digital options are discontinuous), which conflicts with the inherent smoothness of standard neural networks. To address this, we compare unconstrained networks against constrained architectures that explicitly embed the terminal payoff condition, drawing inspiration from PDE-solving techniques. Our framework assumes two tradable assets: the underlying and a liquid call option capturing volatility dynamics. Numerical experiments evaluate the method on simple options with varying non-smoothness, the exotic Equinox option, and scenarios with market jumps for robustness. Results demonstrate superior P&L distributions, highlighting the efficacy of constrained networks in handling realistic payoffs. This work advances machine learning applications in quantitative finance by integrating boundary constraints, offering a practical tool for pricing and hedging in incomplete markets.
Pretraining Transformer-Based Models on Diffusion-Generated Synthetic Graphs for Alzheimer's Disease Prediction
Moslemi, Abolfazl, Peyvandi, Hossein
Early and accurate detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is crucial for enabling timely intervention and improving outcomes. However, developing reliable machine learning (ML) models for AD diagnosis is challenging due to limited labeled data, multi-site heterogeneity, and class imbalance. We propose a Transformer-based diagnostic framework that combines diffusion-based synthetic data generation with graph representation learning and transfer learning. A class-conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) is trained on the real-world NACC dataset to generate a large synthetic cohort that mirrors multimodal clinical and neuroimaging feature distributions while balancing diagnostic classes. Modality-specific Graph Transformer encoders are first pretrained on this synthetic data to learn robust, class-discriminative representations and are then frozen while a neural classifier is trained on embeddings from the original NACC data. We quantify distributional alignment between real and synthetic cohorts using metrics such as Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), Frechet distance, and energy distance, and complement discrimination metrics with calibration and fixed-specificity sensitivity analyses. Empirically, our framework outperforms standard baselines, including early and late fusion deep neural networks and the multimodal graph-based model MaGNet, yielding higher AUC, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity under subject-wise cross-validation on NACC. These results show that diffusion-based synthetic pretraining with Graph Transformers can improve generalization in low-sample, imbalanced clinical prediction settings.