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Donald Trump didn’t become one of the world’s most recognizable businessmen by worrying too much about keeping everyone happy. What Trump wants, Trump tends to pursue, consequences be damned. But his administration’s new AI task force may require a different touch.
Some of South Korea’s biggest banks have been hacked with the assistance of an artificial intelligence agent, opening up a new front in the AI and cybersecurity worlds.
Dystopian narratives about AI abound. Will the bots take over? Are we doomed as a human species? While I do not have a utopian outlook about our tech-saturated future, I do wonder what we could start doing today, in our present state, to course-correct these calamitous narratives.
I’m talking to many companies these days that are trying to incorporate AI into their business practices. Most of them are still in what I call “the administrative phase,” when they just try modest automations that allow some workers to draft documents or presentations, answer emails, or do…
Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a turning point for child safety.
President Donald Trump on Sunday tapped Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to lead a new government task force on artificial intelligence.Trump is calling it the “Super Intelligence Force,” because he has tried to rebrand AI as “super intelligence.” The announcement comes after…
We are in a moment of AI anxiety, plagued with the knotty and draining problems raised by the technology’s ever-growing capabilities. What will we do when AI launches massive cyberattacks that might target a government—or destabilize the global stock market?
What happens when you interview an AI? If you can believe it, it’s stranger than you’d expect. Eline van der Velden, the Dutch actress-turned-tech-founder who created AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, explains how a personal art project became one of the most controversial figures in…
Why on earth do people want to put data centers in space? It’s all about power and cooling. The chips that run AI models require a lot of electrical power, and our electrical grid will be seriously stretched to accommodate the wave of new AI data centers now being built or planned.
Imagine watching a political campaign video in which a candidate admits to taking a bribe. You recognize the face and voice. But the confession is entirely fabricated, thanks to artificial intelligence. Now imagine that your state has passed a law against these AI-generated election deepfakes.
The scale of unauthorized or previously unknown actions by AI agents keeps getting bigger by the day. More than 100 organizations have now received a metaphorical knock on the door from OpenAI after it discovered their AI agents have in some way tampered with their systems, while other AI labs are…
An Arizona man’s 10-year manslaughter sentence has been tossed in a case where a video generated by artificial intelligence portrayed the deceased victim addressing a judge before the punishment was imposed.In a decision released Wednesday, the Arizona Court of Appeals concluded Gabriel Paul…
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump brought many of the most powerful people in AI to the White House, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
In the early days of generative AI, it seemed as if the labs were so heads-down building large language models that they didn’t think much about the raw material they were using.
A Quinnipiac University national poll strongly suggests that Americans’ fears about AI now go well beyond job losses and energy cost hikes due to new data centers. Fears about AI threatening humanity have gone mainstream.
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Elon Musk has long proselytized about the potential of space-based data centers. But as of today, he’s no longer alone in touting the idea of sending the hardware that powers AI into orbit.
For two years, ServiceNow’s challengers have built businesses around frustrations with its software. Their pitch centers on two complaints: Implementations take too long, and employees increasingly expect help inside tools they already use rather than through a separate portal.
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