- Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdownWhen HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out […]
- Scientists warn of ‘insidious risks’ of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviourTurning to AI chatbots for personal advice poses “insidious risks”, according to a study showing the technology consistently affirms a user’s actions […]
- Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspiciousAn artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and […]
- The Australian names HBO drama the best TV show of the past 25 years. Plus: reporters in the spotlight at the White HouseWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the […]
- Anne Keast-Butler says government and business must to work together to tackle future attacks as AI makes cybercrime easierCompanies need to do more to mitigate the potential effects of cyber-attacks, the head of GCHQ has […]
- Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systemsAt first glance, today’s artificial intelligence policy landscape suggests a strategic retreat from regulation. As of late, AI leaders such as […]
- The world will be pushed into a recession, but perhaps we can build something more promising from the piecesThe world economy hinges on the success or failure of artificial intelligence. It’s becoming apparent that we […]
- Originality.ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between January and September With gingko “memory-boost tinctures”, fennel “tummy-soothing syrups” and “citrus-immune gummies,” AI “slop” has come for herbalism, a study published by a leading AI-detection […]
- Nobel laureates also sign letter saying ASI technology should be barred until there is consensus that it can be developed ‘safely’The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have joined artificial intelligence pioneers and Nobel laureates in […]
- The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?My friend’s name is […]
- Tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker analyses the rise and rise of AI-generated video, and what it will mean for the internet and beyondLast month, in the same week, two tech giants launched apps based around AI-generated […]
- Company’s AI-powered browser built around marquee bot is designed to provide more personalized web experienceOpenAI on Tuesday launched an AI-powered web browser built around its marquee chatbot.“Meet our new browser—ChatGPT Atlas,” a tweet from the […]
- In tech this week: The CEO of the city’s largest private employer apologizes, Amazon Web Services’ outage and OpenAI’s Sora makes wavesHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host and editor, Blake Montgomery. What I’m […]
- The AI-generated host of Dispatches raises worrying questions about Channel 4’s environmental impact. She’s also a dead-eyed host who might leave Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Kevin McCloud fearing for their futureLast night’s Dispatches was called Will […]
- Data protection authority says chatbots are ‘clearly biased’, as Netherlands prepares for national pollDutch election: key players and main issuesEurope live – latest updatesAI chatbots are “unreliable and clearly biased” when offering voting advice, the […]
- OpenAI is surfacing company knowledge by connecting ChatGPT to enterprise data, turning it from a general assistant into a custom analyst. For business leaders, generative AI’s potential has always been limited by its lack of […]
- Anthropic’s announcement this week that it will deploy up to one million Google Cloud TPUs in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars marks a significant recalibration in enterprise AI infrastructure strategy. The expansion, […]
- Lightricks is upping the ante for rapid video creation and iteration with its latest artificial intelligence model. The company claims its newly released LTX-2 foundation model can generate new content faster than playback speed, plus […]
- At its London Symbiosis 4 event on 22 October, Druid AI introduced what it terms Virtual Authoring Teams – a new generation of AI agents that can design, test, and deploy other AI agents. The […]
- The emergence of artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the field of content creation. Tools capable of generating coherent, often impressive, text, are now ubiquitous. Yet, despite their sophistication, AI-generated content presents a persistent challenge because […]