AI-powered tools are cracking down the $23B animal trafficking: Fortune | Next in AI| Astha La Vista скачать в хорошем качестве

AI-powered tools are cracking down the $23B animal trafficking: Fortune | Next in AI| Astha La Vista

Today’s AI news highlights a sharp shift from raw capability to judgment, uncertainty, and real-world impact—with safety, governance, and social application moving to the foreground. The most provocative signal comes from Anthropic, via a Wired feature questioning whether Claude itself can learn the wisdom needed to prevent catastrophic outcomes. This reflects a broader industry bet: alignment may not come only from external rules, but from models developing internal uncertainty awareness and restraint. That concern is reinforced by new research on agentic overconfidence, showing that AI agents often dramatically overestimate their own success rates—an uncomfortable reminder that confidence ≠ competence in autonomous systems. On the applied side, AI’s upside is becoming more concrete. Fortune reports how AI-powered tools are helping crack down on the $23B global animal trafficking trade, using pattern detection across massive, sparsely inspected cargo flows—an example of AI delivering immediate societal value where humans alone cannot scale. Meanwhile, Meta showcased how computer vision systems are reducing public-sector costs while expanding access to green spaces in the UK, underscoring AI’s growing role in public infrastructure and policy execution. At the ecosystem level, new benchmarks like AIRS-Bench and research into explainability for agentic (multi-step) systems point to a maturing field: we are no longer just asking what models predict, but how they plan, act, fail, and explain themselves over time. The next phase of AI progress will hinge less on scale alone—and more on calibrated uncertainty, trust, and governance in the real world. #ArtificialIntelligence #AgenticAI #AISafety #ResponsibleAI #AIResearc #AIforGood #Anthropic #Claude #FutureOfAI   / issue-104-sam-ghosh-g4zhc   https://asthalavista.com/