AI News & Marketplace Roundup: AI Goes Nuclear
Last month, I offered a dispatch on power hungry AI that included a roundup of industry updates that covers generative AI in the workplace, mobile,...
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Blog Posts
CR AI Fellow: Building Trust and Safety in Generative AI through Observability
Consumer Reports (CR) has been exploring generative artificial intelligence (AI) through the launch of AskCR, an experimental chatbot that helps...
CR AI Fellow: Building a State Level AI Policy Tracker
With artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly transforming industry and communities, and federal lawmaking trailing behind technological advancements,...
AI News & Marketplace Roundup: Power-Hungry AI
AI is changing how consumers find information and how businesses interact with their customers. It’s essential to understand where the industry is...
AI News & Marketplace Roundup: What’s an AI Agent, Exactly?
Hi, I’m Dirk — a marketplace analyst at Consumer Reports. Part of my job is monitoring industry trends on how consumers find information, and the...
Survey: Majority of Americans are Uncomfortable with AI in Employment, Housing, Healthcare Decisions
Artificial intelligence and algorithms are increasingly being used to help make important decisions about your life. Some landlords use algorithmic...
A Responsible Approach to Generative AI Development: It’s Evaluation-Driven
This June we launched an invite-only beta of AskCR, a new experimental product that answers CR members questions in a naturalistic way, using...
Photoshop of Horrors
Over the past few weeks, complaints about Adobe’s new policy terms have exploded online, with many users of Photoshop and other Adobe tools...
A Responsible Approach to Generative AI Development: Experimentation (Part 1)
Like many organizations over the past year, we’ve been experimenting with generative AI. We’ve built proof of concept and prototype...
Who’s Verifying the Verifier: A Case-Study in Securing LLM Applications
As part of our LLM prototyping work, Consumer Reports (CR) is experimenting with different ways to query our data sources using plain english...