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The US and 30 Other Nations Agree to Set Guardrails for Military AI

When politicians, tech executives, and researchers gathered in the UK last week to discuss the risks of artificial intelligence, one prominent worry was that algorithms might someday turn against their human masters....

OpenAI Wants Everyone to Build Their Own Version of ChatGPT

OpenAI’s ChatGPT became a phenomenon thanks to its wide-ranging abilities, such as drafting college essays, writing working computer programs, and digging up information from across the web.Now the company aims to further...

Elon Musk Announces Grok, a ‘Rebellious’ AI With Few Guardrails

Last week, Elon Musk flew to the UK to hype up the existential risk posed by artificial intelligence. A couple of days later, he announced that his latest company, xAI, had developed...

World Powers Say They Want to Contain AI. They’re Also Racing to Advance It

Yesterday, 28 countries including the US, members of the EU, and China signed a declaration warning that artificial intelligence is advancing with such speed and uncertainty that it could cause “serious, even...

Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?

Amazon’s virtual shelves already feature books written by artificial intelligence. One startup believes that even titles written by humans would benefit from some AI, in the form of an accompanying chatbot primed...

AI Is Becoming More Powerful—but Also More Secretive

When OpenAI published details of the stunningly capable AI language model GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT, in March, its researchers filled 100 pages. They also left out a few important details—like anything substantial...

The US Just Escalated Its AI Chip War With China

A year ago, the US government introduced chip sanctions aimed at hobbling China’s ability to develop advanced artificial intelligence. But those sanctions had loopholes that allowed Chinese firms to keep buying and...

AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type

The way you talk can reveal a lot about you—especially if you're talking to a chatbot. New research reveals that chatbots like ChatGPT can infer a lot of sensitive information about the...

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