Artificial intelligence agents – also known as agentic AI – can now build and launch software based on a few prompts. But AI agents can produce incorrect, misleading, and even malicious code that hackers can exploit. Thanks to a gift from Amazon, a pair of computer scientists from Cornell Bowers and Cornell Tech will lead the development of safety protocols to shore up AI agents and the code they produce.
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Weak AI regulation may backfire, making products less safe
A new modeling study finds that weak AI regulation may be worse than no regulation at all when it comes to the safety of AI products and services.
Alum Gilles Brassard receives Turing Award, highest CS honor
Gilles Brassard, Ph.D. ’79, has received the 2025 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), jointly with Charles Bennett, for founding the field of quantum information science and for new encryption technology for secure communication and computing.
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