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AI’s No Joke, What Next?
In a CounterPunch essay, Michael Albert argues that the race among major AI firms toward artificial general intelligence and superintelligence…
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War, China, Trump and AI Have Created Perma-Crisis
In a Bloomberg Opinion column, Hal Brands argues that the world is unlikely to settle into a stable equilibrium anytime…
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Keeping Curiosity in an AI World
In a guest commentary for The Baltimore Sun, retired psychologist Patricia Steckler argues that AI and search engines are eroding…
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Young Americans Are Turning Against AI, New Data Shows
Gary Marcus reported that new polling shows U.S. young adults have shifted from broad enthusiasm to concern about artificial intelligence.…
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The Case for Not Fearing AI-Designed Viruses
A Washington Post opinion piece argues that AI’s growing ability to design novel viruses illustrates both the technology’s promise and…
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Why the Public’s Problem With AI Isn’t a Messaging Problem
Garrett Graff argues that declining public approval of AI stems from Americans’ negative lived experiences rather than from poor messaging…
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Autonomous Drones May Already Be Crossing the Line in Ukraine
Gerald Mako examines claims that Ukrainian forces deployed a fully autonomous drone in “Terminator mode” that allegedly struck a target…
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No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and ‘most human disease’ in five to ten years
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus disputes Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s prediction that AI could cure most human disease within five to…
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The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem
MIT Technology Review reports on new research finding that AI agents currently cannot conduct open-ended AI research — free-form investigation…
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AI detection tools are proliferating. Here’s why they won’t last.
In his ‘Superintelligent’ newsletter column, linguist Adam Aleksic argues that the growing market of AI-text detection tools is built on…
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Stop shaming the use of AI. For some with disabilities, it’s a godsend
Freelance writer Sharon Schindel, who has chronic pain and nerve damage, argues that blanket criticism of AI writing tools overlooks…
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An FT column was condensed with AI. It crossed a novel ethical line.
Poynter’s Ren LaForme examines a Financial Times editorial ethics incident in which Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann used an AI tool…