Researchers have developed the first scientifically validated ‘personality test’ framework for popular AI chatbots, and have shown that chatbots not only mimic human personality traits, but their ‘personality’ can be reliably tested and precisely shaped – raising implications for AI safety and ethics.

What generative AI typically does best – recognise patterns and predict the next step in a sequence – can seem fundamentally at odds with the intangibility of human creativity and imagination. However, Cambridge researchers suggest that AI can be a useful creative partner, as long as there is clear guidance on how ideas should be developed together.

The Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery and the Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3) are proud to announce funding for 15 groundbreaking projects that will use artificial intelligence to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in science and society.

A new report involving hundreds of literary creatives from across the UK fiction publishing industry reveals fears over copyright violation, lost income, and the future of the art form, as generative AI tools and LLM-authored books flood the market.