Welles Crowther became known as the Man in the Red Bandana after stories spread about his heroism on September 11, 2001. Now, an AI-generated image purporting to show Crowther rescuing people from…
The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way
Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught an AI model to help produce brand-new, deadly viruses. The AI—a “genome-language model” trained on DNA sequences—had designed…
Europe’s difficult choices on AI
The writer is a former president of the European Central Bank and was prime minister of Italy Europe faces a difficult set of choices. It needs to grow, so that it can…
More Questions About AI Dangers, With Pointers From Gary Marcus
Following up on my previous post, I want to point your attention to this post by Gary Marcus, a highly respected and knowledgable critic/skeptic of AI. You should read it just to…
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
How do you interpret the resignation of that Anthropic engineer, who’s saying the companies are reckless and gambling with our lives? On the one hand, you seem to agree that the companies…
Anthropic says it blocked possible attempts to use AI to develop bioweapons
Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons. In a report published Thursday, the AI company…
Opinion | When the rogue agents become superintelligent – washingtonpost.com
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The Original Sin of AI
The social-media industry is having a moment of reckoning. By agreeing to pay up to $17.1 billion to 47 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories and consenting to make changes…
Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson Interview on OpenAI, His Own Videos
Running a great magazine is hard. So is turning a money-losing magazine into a profit center. Nicholas Thompson has done both. The CEO of The Atlantic took the job in 2021, when…
Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
Meta says it’s making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman’s young daughters, as reported earlier by…