behave
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Some quit, like Daniel Kokotajlo, an OpenAI safety researcher who left in 2024, saying he lost confidence the company would behave responsibly as the technology progressed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
This type of controller relies on a dynamic mathematical model to predict how the robot will behave and determine the best sequence of actions for safely following a desired flight path.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
And if an AI system itself behaves in ways its developers did not expect, a rulebook won’t make it behave.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Yet objects in the everyday world do not behave that way.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Her rules on how to behave as we began venturing out more into the world were detailed and always present.
From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals
"What makes this finding particularly interesting is that the sharks were responding to sounds beyond the acoustic near field, where the sound behaves differently than it does close to the source," Kajiura said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Plus, it’s inherently funny when a body engineered to function with extreme precision behaves ineptly.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Watch whether gold behaves as though that rate increase solves anything.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Watch the mushrooms more than the clock; a mix containing oyster mushrooms behaves differently than a pan full of white buttons.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
By looking at the collective motion of groups of atoms, physicists could predict the way matter behaves.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Hours later, following the Eagles’ 27-7 loss to the Bears, Sirianni expressed regret for how he behaved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
The now-retired Falcao speaks fondly of Pinto, who he says behaved just like his friends and would "go to the gym, go to McDonald's".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
“I think he’s behaved reasonably well, and we behave reasonably well,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“This is not how Navatek behaved or conducted business before I sold the company to Martin Kao,” Loui wrote to ProPublica.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“What do you think, Cee? Have you behaved even worse than usual today?”
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
"Now, I think it's Mediapart that needs to be told to put on its Kevlar vest, because there will obviously be a response to the way they are behaving," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The company is also instituting a feature that would lock out users behaving abnormally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
It took investigations, trials, discovery, all of the tools of modern litigation, to get documents, interview witnesses, to do the fact-building that exposed just how bad the industry had been behaving.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Former Crenshaw football coach Robert Garrett said he learned to talk to students about their personal lives to understand why they are behaving in certain ways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
It’s disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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