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A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damnedSam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, took to the Internet a few […]

Forget dirty nappies. In Silicon Valley, there’s increasing chatter about virtual offspringA few months ago, an AI researcher from Europe attended a dinner party in Silicon Valley. During one of the many courses, the host […]

While companion robots are being introduced and virtual experiences hope to ‘take loneliness away’, one expert agrees tech should never replace the human elementFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news […]

Experts say AI firm’s engagement with Vatican risks creating ‘feelgood’ discourse that lacks critical examinationWhy did Anthropic’s founder sit beside the pope during a warning about AI?In the first major written teaching of his papacy, […]

Guardian readers in the US spoke of fears about unregulated AI in response to the pope’s encyclical warning about the risks of the technologyIn his first major papal text since assuming leadership of the Catholic […]

Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth […]

Exclusive: IPPR thinktank calls for new measures to boost employees’ influence at ‘pivotal moment’ in history Workers urgently need more bargaining power over the way AI is adopted in the workplace to ensure the benefits […]

The intelligent and thoughtful encyclical is an important warning of the uses and misuses of a rapidly developing technology. Silicon Valley is wrong to dismiss itOften I’m asked if I think that the novels of […]

Claude’s parent company’s $65bn in latest funding round underscores vast sums of money still flowing into industryAnthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, announced on Thursday it had raised $65bn in funding to value […]

Richard Thackeray and Phil Snell respond to an article by Wendy Liu on using artificial intelligenceWendy Liu’s thoughtful piece on AI and cognitive sovereignty raises real concerns about labour redundancies, the hype and the environmental […]

Dr Susan Oman on a campaign that is designed to raise public awareness of AIYour editorial on Pope Leo XIV’s call to centre human dignity in AI debate makes an important argument (The Guardian view […]

Picture was created by administrator in charge of station’s Facebook account who wanted to create ‘friendlier image’It was an arresting image and an irresistible story. A group of tough Thai police officers – five men […]

Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggestsEnergy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated […]

Last month at Beijing’s half marathon, a robot named Lightning beat the human world record by nearly seven minutes. It’s the latest in a string of AI-powered milestones that have got people wondering whether robots […]

I draw the old way – with my hand. Doing it with AI would not make me more creative, it would drain the colour out of my existenceLast week I went to a gig by […]