Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned. The Nobel peace prize-winning…
Growing concerns about the impact of smartphones on the youngest children must be addressed The first UK government guidance on young children’s use of tablets, smartphones and other screens, expected in April, cannot come soon enough. The laissez-faire approach to the boom in social media, handheld devices and other digital technology was arguably nowhere less…
Readers discuss the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in schools. Also: President Trump’s “Board of Peace”; an anti-ICE slogan.
While some predict traditional retail will be cut out of the AI revolution, home and DIY retailer Lowe’s has pushed ahead with Milo, helping its customers get inspired.While some predict traditional retail will be cut out of the AI revolution, home and DIY retailer Lowe’s has pushed ahead with Milo, helping its customers get inspired.
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.
This story first appeared in The Debrief, our subscriber-only newsletter about the biggest news in tech by Mat Honan, Editor in Chief. Subscribe to read the next edition as soon as it lands. It’s supposed to be frigid in Davos this time of year. Part of the charm is seeing the world’s elite tromp through the…
Estimate made by Center for Countering Digital Hate after Elon Musk’s AI image generation tool sparked outrage Grok AI generated about 3m sexualised images in less than two weeks, including 23,000 that appear to depict children, according to researchers who said it “became an industrial-scale machine for the production of sexual abuse material”. The estimate…
Hundreds of writers, musicians and performers urge licensing deals instead of scraping creative work Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, REM and Jodi Picoult are among hundreds of Hollywood stars, musicians and authors backing a new campaign accusing AI companies of “theft” of their work. The “Stealing Isn’t Innovation” drive launched on Thursday with the support of…
Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world. He believes that the industry’s current obsession with large language models is wrong-headed and will ultimately fail to solve many pressing problems. Instead, he thinks we should be betting on world…
Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.
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