AI safety and alignment: jailbreaks and defences, research on model behaviour, safety evaluations and governance frameworks.
Google DeepMind released AI Control Roadmap, a framework for building and managing advanced AI deployed inside Google. It applies defence in depth, adding system-level safety layers beyond model alignment to provide protection even when alignment is imperfect.
Google DeepMind announced AI co-clinician research to explore AI agents assisting patient care under clinical supervision. In blinded assessments of 98 real primary-care queries, 97 responses had no critical errors, and doctors preferred them to existing evidence-synthesis tools. Across 140 consultation skills, AI matched or exceeded primary-care doctors on 68, but expert doctors were better overall at recognising red flags and guiding key physical examinations.
Google Quantum AI published a white paper saying future quantum computers would require fewer qubits and gates than previously estimated to break the elliptic-curve cryptography protecting cryptocurrencies.