Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has a lot of preoccupations. It loves repeating terms like “maximum lethality” and now wants to monitor servicemen’s erections. It’s adamantly against deployments of reasonable ...

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A controversy around OpenAI’s latest math proof raises a fear that might become increasingly common: that A.I. tools could take valuable insights from one user and hand them to another. By Cade Metz ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. The researchers building our favorite chatbots are increasingly voicing concerns that AI could hurt — or end — humanity.

Cynthia Montoya's daughter, Juliana, was 13 when she began talking to AI chatbots. It was 2023, and the technology was only beginning to enter widespread use. When Juliana died by suicide that ...

The company argued that the AI chatbot's user agreement states that AI-generated content is provided for reference only and should not be treated as professional advice. (Image credit: Unsplash) A man ...

Commission President may announce some details on Wednesday Companies would have to pay a supervisory fee EU proposals would require many months of debate before they could become law BRUSSELS, Sept ...

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 to how ...

September 15 - The heads of leading U.S. AI labs came together in a rare show of unity over the weekend to slow the technology's development, warning it could soon improve on its own and slip beyond ...

I don’t know when I first heard the story of Joseph Weizenbaum, but it was a long time before our screens and news and thoughts and dreams and nightmares were so full of artificial intelligence. He ...

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday that more than a quarter of its research and development is now led by its chatbot Claude, a figure that jumped from zero in just months and ...