Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? Scientists aren't so sure
19-07-2026 17:00 via space.com

Should we trust AI in the search for alien life? Scientists aren't so sure

Artificial intelligence could easily fall into the trap of identifying non-life as life on other worlds, claim two researchers from Michigan State University who have tested AI on simulated life in a computer program."We had previously seen that AI has a big Achilles heel when it is trying to classify things that are unlike the things in its training examples," Michigan's Christoph Adami told Space.com. "We call these 'out-of-distribution' samples and it is just incredibly easy to get AI to misc
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