Will Knight

Articles by Will Knight

These Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models How to Talk to Each Other Without Using Words - WIRED

Technology September 3, 2026

I recently met with some brilliant Russian mathematicians who showed me a way for artificial intelligence models to communicate via something akin to machine telepathy. The mathematicians work for aοΏ½...

AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse - WIRED

Technology August 7, 2026

What if anartificial intelligence agent could behave like a malevolent computer worm? One researcher has seen it happen. In several recent experiments,Xudong Pan, a computer scientist at Fudan UniveοΏ½...

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins - WIRED

Technology April 30, 2026

OpenAI has a goblin problem. Instructions designed to guide the behavior of the companys latest model as it writes code have been revealed to include a line, repeated several times, that specificallοΏ½...

The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path - WIRED

Technology April 28, 2026

David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence. In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go withοΏ½...

Moltbot Is Taking Over Silicon Valley - WIRED

Technology January 30, 2026

Dan Peguine, a tech entrepreneur and marketing consultant based in Lisbon, lets a precocious, lobster-themed AI assistant called Moltbot run much of his life. Peguine, a self-professed early adopterοΏ½...

AI Models Are Starting to Learn by Asking Themselves Questions - WIRED

Technology January 9, 2026

Even the smartestartificial intelligence models are essentially copycats. They learn either by consuming examples of human work or by trying to solve problems that have been set for them by human insοΏ½...