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Experts Urge Action to Mitigate ‘Risk of Extinction From AI’
It “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” says a new statement signed by dozens of…
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Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
“We trusted the government not to screw us,” said Edward Snowden. “But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of…
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Tesla Leads Industry for Crashes and Deaths Involving Driver-Assistance Tech
“Tesla is having more severe—and fatal—crashes than people in a normal data set,” one expert said. Cars using Tesla’s Autopilot mode have been involved…
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If You’re Driving Off a Cliff, Do You Need a Faster Car?
Artificial intelligence and the fate of the world. Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, thinks artificial intelligence (AI) will kill us all.…
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EU Praised for Urging Google Breakup Over Online Ad Market Domination
“Antitrust enforcers worldwide agree: We must break up Google’s advertising monopoly,” said one expert. “As the commission said in its statement, it is the…
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Beware the Coming Flood of Frankenstein Chatbots
BIG TECH is rushing way ahead of any legal framework for AI in the quest for big profits, while pushing for self-regulation instead of…
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A Late, Great Texan’s Invention Is Helping His State Through the Heat
John Goodenough, who is known as the inventor of the lithium-ion battery, died Monday at 100. John Goodenough, who died Monday at the age…
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Will Humanity Be the Collateral Damage When the AI Machines Go to War?
“Autonomous weapons,” warns one expert, “could lead to accidental death and destruction at catastrophic scales in an instant.” A world in which machines governed…
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Wages Are Down 4% in Rich Nations as ‘AI Revolution’ Looms: OECD
Worker pay, already failing to keep pace with cost-of-living increases, is at risk of being further suppressed as artificial intelligence and other technologies threaten…
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White House Deal for Voluntary AI Safeguards Called ‘Great Step’ But ‘Not Enough’
Advocacy groups and experts are pressuring Congress and federal regulators to “put meaningful, enforceable guardrails in place.” Amid rising global fears about the dangers…
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What Kind of Danger Does AI Really Pose?
Perhaps an AI apocalypse primarily threatens to reveal the deeply embedded coded injustices, prejudices, and fallacies in our society, so that we can no longer ignore…
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Oppenheimer Ignores the First Victims of the Nuclear Era
The movie repeats the myth that the New Mexico bomb site was in a desolate area with “nothing for 40 miles in either direction.”…
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After Black Pregnant Woman’s False Arrest, Markey Renews Call for Federal Facial Recognition Ban
“We need to pass my bill to prohibit the use of biometric technologies by federal entities and law enforcement so that people like Porcha…
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To Curb Racist Abuses of Technology, Congress Must Rein in Facial Recognition
For many, the abuses of technology are not some future threats. Technology is often hailed as an engine of progress, but if unleashed without…
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What AI Could Mean for Accessing Public Benefits
While AI brings great potential to streamline burdensome processes and expand access to critical services, it also poses significant risks if deployed without care.…
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Ethics Group Asks SEC to Probe Musk Claims About ‘Gruesome’ Neuralink Monkey Trials
“It seems obvious to everyone but Elon Musk that Neuralink’s device is unsafe,” said one critic. “Now he is deliberately misleading investors and the…
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Report Urges Curbs on Development of ‘Deceptive and Dangerous’ Human-Like AI
“Lawmakers and regulators must step up and confront this threat before it’s too late,” the report’s author warns. Tech companies are creating and deploying…
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Tech Experts Warn Humanity Must Act Now to Avoid ‘Societal-Scale’ Damage by AI
“It’s time to get serious about advanced AI systems,” said one computer science professor. “These are not toys. Increasing their capabilities before we understand…
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Kidnapping Charges for Idaho Teen and Mother Seen as Test Case for ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Law
“Prosecutors seeking to test out laws like this are likely to go after people who won’t garner much sympathy from the public,” wrote one…
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‘Awful News for Humanity’: Alarm as Larry Summers Joins OpenAI Board
“There is no greater indication that OpenAI is unserious about the interests of humanity than their elevation of Larry Summers to its board of…