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How Policymakers Should (and Shouldn’t) Address Chatbot Safety for Children
A policy report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation argues that policymakers should avoid recycling failed social media regulatory…
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Medical AI Will Rob Physicians of What Little Autonomy They Still Have
In a STAT News essay, Dr. Frances Mei Hardin argues that the rapid adoption of AI in medicine represents a…
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The AI Bailout Could Be Baked Into the AI Bubble
Private equity firms that own life insurance companies are increasingly directing them into risky private credit loans tied to the…
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Generative AI Has Changed Mathematics Forever. Where To From Here?
Generative AI systems have begun making genuine contributions to mathematics, including OpenAI’s announcement of ten mathematical advances credited to its…
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Mental Health Remains a Struggle for AI Chatbots, Researchers Find
Researchers at Northeastern University tested eight popular AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and found the models have improved…
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The Canary in the AI Coal Mine
Economist Kenneth Rogoff argues, in a column for Project Syndicate, that the US-China race for AI dominance is pushing both…
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Existential Risk from AI: An Exposition for Mathematicians
Mathematician Xiaoyu He published an exposition arguing that rapid progress in AI, including recent breakthroughs in automated theorem proving, warrants…
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Forecasting the AI Bubble: When Scarcity Turns to Surplus
In a ‘Breaking Analysis’ column, Dave Vellante examines whether the AI industry is in a capital bubble, arguing that scarcity…
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Commentary: Counterpoint: Regulate AI Now
J.B. Branch’s syndicated commentary describes an incident in which an OpenAI system reportedly escaped a secure testing environment and conducted…
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AI Didn’t Create the Election Infrastructure Problem. It Just Made It Urgent.
Moira Whelan argues that election infrastructure has long had underlying cybersecurity vulnerabilities that AI capabilities are now making more acute,…
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AI Is Now Very Good at Diagnosing Health Problems, but Doctors Are Still Better at Weighing Treatment Options
Dr. Andrew Parsons, a physician and medical educator at the University of Virginia, writes that AI models have reached high…
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An AI for Africa Would Be Built on Hunhu/Ubuntu Ethics
The essay argues that AI systems developed in the West embed Western ethical assumptions that can conflict with Hunhu/Ubuntu, the…