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... Jacob Rubenstein September 17, 2024
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,... Jacob Rubenstein September 12, 2024
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... Dirk Klingner August 29, 2024
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... Dirk Klingner July 31, 2024
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... Grace Gedye July 25, 2024
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... Sarah Luger July 12, 2024
Why Are We Experimenting with Generative AI? Today we launched an invite-only beta of AskCR, an experimental chatbot that helps people get to CR’s trusted information faster. We imagine some... Ben Moskowitz June 17, 2024
Introducing the AskCR Beta Today we are launching AskCR, an experimental chatbot that helps people get to CR’s trusted information faster. True to its name, you can... Ginny Fahs June 17, 2024
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... Steve Blair June 15, 2024
A Responsible Approach to Generative AI Development: LLM Orchestration (Part 2) Empowering and informing consumers is central to Consumer Reports’ (CR) mission as a nonprofit member organization. It follows then, that when we... Dustin Marshall May 22, 2024