The UK wants to export its model of AI regulation, but it's doubtful the world will want it
TechXplore - Wed 7 Jun 23Recent claims that artificial intelligence (AI) poses an existential threat to humanity seem to have jolted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak into action. Despite being seen as having a "pro-techology" ...
Why Nature will not allow the use of generative AI in images and video
Nature News - Wed 7 Jun 23Nature, Published online: 07 June 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01546-4Saying ‘no’ to this kind of visual content is a question of research integrity, consent, privacy and ...
OpenAI CEO suggests international agency like UN's nuclear watchdog could oversee AI
TechXplore - Tue 6 Jun 23Artificial intelligence poses an "existential risk" to humanity, a key innovator warned during a visit to the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, suggesting an international agency like the International ...
Deezer to detect AI-generated music clones
TechXplore - Tue 6 Jun 23Music streaming app Deezer said Tuesday it was launching a tool to detect and tag songs with AI-generated vocal clones in a bid to protect the revenues of the real artists.
To avoid AI doom, learn from nuclear safety
MIT Technology Review - Tue 6 Jun 23This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Ok, doomer. For the past few weeks, the AI discourse ...
OpenAI boss 'heartened' by talks with world leaders over will to contain AI risks
TechXplore - Mon 5 Jun 23OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday he was encouraged by a desire shown by world leaders to contain any risks posed by the artificial intelligence technology his company and others are developing.
Human extinction threat 'overblown' says AI sage Marcus
TechXplore - Sun 4 Jun 23Ever since the poem churning ChatGPT burst on the scene six months ago, expert Gary Marcus has voiced caution against artificial intelligence's ultra-fast development and adoption.
Human extinction threat 'overblown' says AI sage Marcus, SpaceDaily - Sun 4 Jun 23Charting a course for the future of Science News
ScienceNews - Sat 3 Jun 23When Science News got its start in 1921, our founders knew that the surest path to deliver the latest news of science was through the dominant media of the day: newspapers. Our first iteration, ...
AI can replicate human creativity in two key ways—but falls apart when asked to produce something truly new
TechXplore - Thu 1 Jun 23Is computational creativity possible? The recent hype around generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, Dall-E and many others, raises new questions about whether ...
No, AI probably won't kill us all—and there's more to this fear campaign than meets the eye
TechXplore - Thu 1 Jun 23Doomsaying is an old occupation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a complex subject. It's easy to fear what you don't understand. These three truths go some way towards explaining the oversimplification ...
Judge Bans AI-Generated Filings In Court Because It Just Makes Stuff Up
Vice - Thu 1 Jun 23A district judge in Texas released an order on Tuesday that banned the usage of generative artificial intelligence to write court filings without a human fact-check as the technology becomes ...
AI could lead to extinction: Another AI 'godfather' rings alarm bells
Interesting Engineering - Thu 1 Jun 23After ...
Top AI researchers and CEOs unite in warning: 'risk of extinction' posed by AI demands global attention, Interesting Engineering - Tue 30 May 23AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research
Nature News - Wed 31 May 23Nature, Published online: 31 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01780-wText- and image-generating tools present a new hurdle for efforts to tackle the growing number of fake papers ...
Artificial intelligence warning over human extinction – all you need to know
The Independent - Wed 31 May 23AI could be used to develop new chemical weapons and enhance aerial combat, the San Francisco-based Centre for AI Safety said.
If we're going to label AI an 'extinction risk', we need to clarify how it could happen
TechXplore - Wed 31 May 23This week a group of well-known and reputable AI researchers signed a statement consisting of 22 words:
Top AI CEOs, experts raise 'risk of extinction' of humanity
Nikkei Asia - Wed 31 May 23 Pain And Panic Over Rogue AI - We Need a Balance, iProgrammer - Wed 31 May 23Marc Andreessen Addresses Concerns of AI Doomsday, Calling Its Believers a 'Cult', Techtimes - Tue 6 Jun 23
AI Reunites The Beatles After 50 Years with Artificially Generated Collaborations, Techtimes - Tue 6 Jun 23
Artificial Intelligence Has 50% Chance of Wiping Out Humanity If It Continues To Get Smarter, Expert Warns, The Science Times - Sat 3 Jun 23
Should We All Be Meditating? Find Out In Issue 11 Of CURIOUS – Out Now, IFLScience - Sun 28 May 23
Composer Kevin March Awarded 2023 UKARIA Residency, Mirage News - Thu 8 Jun 23
Today’s Cache | OpenAI CEO against regulating small companies; Meta Verified comes to India; UK to control crypto advertising, The Hindu - Thu 8 Jun 23
RMIT AI Experts: AI Won’t Lead to Human Extinction, Mirage News - Wed 31 May 23
AI fear campaign debunked: No, it won’t kill us all, Mirage News - Wed 31 May 23
Breakthrough Science Society objects to ISRO chairman’s claims on science in ancient India, The Hindu - Tue 30 May 23
WVXU: AI continues to advance but at what cost?, Mirage News - Wed 24 May 23
Tech world warns risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority
ABC Science - Tue 30 May 23Top artificial intelligence executives join experts and professors in raising the "risk of extinction from AI", urging politicians to equate it with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear ...
What's new in robots? An AI-powered humanoid machine that writes poems
TechXplore - Tue 30 May 23Ameca can speak French, Chinese or dozens of other languages, instantly compose a poem or sketch a cat on request. Ask for a smile, and you'll get a clenched grin on her rubbery blue face.
AI CEOs Say AI Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Are Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This
Vice - Tue 30 May 23Hundreds of AI researchers, CEOs, and engineers signed a statement warning that AI has as much of a possibility to cause extinction as pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk ...
"Risk of Extinction" From AI Is as Big a Threat as Nuclear War, Tech Experts Warn
Inverse - Tue 30 May 23Artificial intelligence may pose a societal threat as dire as pandemics and nuclear war, according to a one-sentence statement released today by a nonprofit organization called the Center for ...
Tech world warns risk of extincition from AI should be a global priority
ABC Science - Tue 30 May 23San Francisco-based nonprofit Center for AI Safety released a warning in a statement overnight with the support of major industry stakeholders.
Paul McCartney is using AI to create a final song for The Beatles
Engadget - Tue 13 Jun 23AI-assisted vocals aren't just for bootleg songs. Paul McCartney has revealed to BBC Radio 4 that he's using AI to turn a John Lennon demo into one last song for The Beatles. The technology ...
The Beatles will release their 'final' record this YEAR - thanks to AI
Daily Mail - Tue 13 Jun 23Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he is using artificial intelligence (AI) to 'extricate' John Lennon's voice from an old demo to create the 'final Beatles record.'
‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it
The Guardian - Wed 7 Jun 23Sam Altman is among the most vocal supporters of artificial intelligence, but is also leading calls to regulate it. He outlines his vision of a very uncertain futureWhen I meet Sam Altman, the ...
Technology minister urges caution on AI 'Terminator' warnings
BBC Technology - Tue 6 Jun 23Paul Scully says there should be more of a focus on the good artificial intelligence can do.
AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, Labour suggests
The Guardian - Tue 6 Jun 23Exclusive: party calls for developers without a licence to be barred from working on advanced AI toolsThe UK should bar technology developers from working on advanced artificial intelligence ...
AI poses national security threat, warns terror watchdog
The Guardian - Sun 4 Jun 23Security services fear the new technology could be used to groom vulnerable peopleThe creators of artificial intelligence need to abandon their “tech utopian” mindset, according to the terror ...
Robot takeover? Not quite. Here’s what AI doomsday would look like
The Guardian - Sat 3 Jun 23Experts say the fallout from powerful AI will be less a nuclear bomb and more a creeping deterioration of societyAlarm over artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch in recent months. ...
AI Poses Major Societal Risks, Says Statement Signed by Industry Leaders - CNET
CNET Cutting Edge - Fri 2 Jun 23AI industry leaders, scientists and notables signed the statement that says mitigating the risks of AI should be a global priority.
AI-generated hate is rising: 3 things leaders should consider before adopting this new tech
TechCrunch - Fri 2 Jun 23Jonathan A. Greenblatt Contributor Share on Twitter Jonathan A. Greenblatt is CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation ...
Expert says there's a 50% chance AI will wipe out humanity
Daily Mail - Fri 2 Jun 23Max Tegmark, a physicist and AI expert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has given a deeply worrying prediction about our future on this planet.
New Musical Spotlights Rosalind Franklin's DNA Discoveries
Smithsonian Magazine - Thu 1 Jun 23"Double Helix," a fictionalized account of Franklin's groundbreaking work, premieres this week
iHeartMedia tells employees to steer clear of ChatGPT
The Verge - Thu 1 Jun 23Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This story first appeared in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up ...
Is AI really a threat on par with nuclear war? Some experts aren't convinced
Salon - Wed 31 May 23Scientists, experts call "BS" as AI industry faces backlash over "fear mongering."
UK should play leading role in developing AI global guidelines, Sunak to tell Biden
The Guardian - Wed 31 May 23British PM wants to see UK take key part in creating international agreement on how to develop AI capabilitiesRishi Sunak will tell Joe Biden next week the UK should become a global hub for ...
Big Tech’s latest AI doomsday warning might be more of the same hype
Popular Science - Wed 31 May 23Critics say current harms of AI include amplifying algorithmic harm, profiting from exploited labor and stolen data, and fueling climate collapse with resource consumption. ...
Experts and CEOs warn of extinction risk posed by AI, compare dangers to nuclear war
Techspot - Wed 31 May 23The worryingly titled AI Extinction Statement from the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) is signed by CEOs from top AI labs: Altman, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. ...
AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio feels 'lost' over life's work
BBC Technology - Tue 30 May 23Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio tells the BBC he did not realise AI would develop so fast.
AI Industry Leaders Sign Statement Warning of 'Extinction' Level Risks - CNET
CNET - Tue 30 May 23The statement, signed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, says mitigating the risks of AI should be a global priority.
OpenAI execs warn of “risk of extinction” from artificial intelligence in new open letter
Ars Technica - Tue 30 May 23Enlarge / An AI-generated image of "AI taking over the world." (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) released a single-sentence statement ...
Artificial intelligence could one day cause human extinction, center for AI safety warns
USA today - Tue 30 May 23Worries about artificial intelligence systems outsmarting humans and running wild have intensified with the rise of a new generation of highly capable AI chatbots such as ChatGPT.      
Risk of extinction by AI should be ‘global priority’, say tech experts
The Guardian - Tue 30 May 23Hundreds of tech leaders call for world to treat AI as danger on par with pandemics and nuclear warA group of leading technology experts from across the globe have warned that artificial intelligence ...
‘The Risk of Extinction:’ AI Leaders Agree on One-Sentence Warning About Technology’s Future
Gizmodo - Tue 30 May 23Over 350 AI executives, researchers, and industry leaders signed a one-sentence warning released Tuesday, saying that we should try to stop their technology from destroying the world. Read more...
AI should be 'a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war',' new letter states
Daily Mail - Tue 30 May 23A new letter signed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind's Demis Hassabis call on policymakers to equate AI at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war.
AI Experts From Google, OpenAI And Elsewhere Issue Dire Extinction Warning
HotHardware - Tue 30 May 23Some of the world's top AI scientists and contributors have jointly signed a brief but ominous warning about the "urgent risks" that loom as artificial intelligence technologies gain a stronger ...
OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk
TechCrunch - Tue 30 May 23Make way for yet another headline-grabbing AI policy intervention: Hundreds of AI scientists, academics, tech CEOs and public figures — from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis ...
AI presents 'risk of extinction' on par with nuclear war, industry leaders say
Engadget - Tue 30 May 23With the rise of ChatGPT, Bard and other large language models (LLMs), we've been hearing warnings from the people involved like Elon Musk about the risks posed by artificial intelligence ...
Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn
BBC Technology - Tue 30 May 23Heads of OpenAI, Google Deepmind and Anthropic say the threat as great as pandemics and nuclear war.
Are UFO Sightings Real?
Extremetech - Tue 30 May 23From Roswell to the USS Nimitz, sightings and evidence abound. How do we investigate UFO reports—and are they real in the first place? We'll explore the evidence, and you can draw your own ...
Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in 22-word statement
The Verge - Tue 30 May 23The 22-word statement was kept short to avoid disagreement among signatories. | Image: Alexa Steinbrück / Better Images of AI / Explainable AI / CC-BY 4.0 A ...
Rishi Sunak races to tighten rules for AI amid fears of existential risk
The Guardian - Fri 26 May 23PM pushes allies to draw up agreement that could lead to global regulator, as industry warns new white paper is already out of date• Is No 10 waking up to dangers of AI?Rishi Sunak is scrambling ...
DeepMind’s CEO will discuss research, Google and more on Disrupt’s AI Stage
TechCrunch - Thu 25 May 23Artificial intelligence captures headlines on an almost a daily basis — and for good reason. The technology will have a profound effect on just about every aspect of life for billions of people ...
POV: Generative AI can unlock musical innovation—if the industry embraces it
Fastcompany Tech - Fri 9 Jun 23With the right approach, AI has the potential to transform music, enriching our cultural landscape and introducing new and extraordinary sonic experiences. As an investor and former entrepreneur ...
AI Won’t Wipe Out Humanity (Yet)
Wired Tech - Thu 1 Jun 23This week, we discuss the real and imagined dangers of generative artificial intelligence, which experts are eager to see regulated and contained.
What is the real point of all these letters warning about AI?
Fastcompany Tech - Wed 31 May 23A new statement warning about the risks of AI was signed by the likes of OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Turing Award-winner Geoffrey Hinton. But critics question whether such public figures ...
Industry leaders warn of AI risks
CBSNews - Tue 30 May 23Dozens of industry leaders, including the CEO of ChatGPT creator Open AI, are warning about the potential risks of artificial intelligence. They said it should be a "global priority" to mitigate ...
POV: Let’s not forget Isaac Asimov’s advice on developi
Fastcompany Tech - Tue 30 May 23For decades, intellectual leaders have anticipated a revolution in artificial intelligence. Going back to the 1950s, writers like Isaac Asimov imagined man-made computer systems that could do ...
AI warning: Human extinction threat should be a ‘global priority,’ say experts
Fastcompany Tech - Tue 30 May 23Scientists and tech industry leaders issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level ...
American companies building lunar landers, ready to commercialize moon
CBSNews - Thu 25 May 23As part of "CBS Mornings'" "American Innovation" series, Mark Strassmann reports on space quickly becoming the next economic frontier, if you can stick the landing.
OpenAI against regulation of smaller AI startups, says CEO Sam Altman
The Hindu - Thu 8 Jun 23OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is against regulating smaller AI startups
If we’re going to label AI an ‘extinction risk’, we need to clarify how it could happen
The Hindu - Mon 5 Jun 23The website of the Centre for AI Safety, where the latest statement appeared, outlines in a separate section eight broad risk categories
Explained | Are safeguards needed to make AI systems safe?
The Hindu - Sat 3 Jun 23What are the promises and pitfalls of advances in artificial intelligence? Why are experts seeking regulation to govern specific AI use cases? Can tools like chatbots influence people’s opinion ...
Early AI adoption at work can foster innovation and boost productivity: Microsoft Report
The Hindu - Fri 2 Jun 23Microsoft’s Work Trend Index 2023 Report titled ‘Will AI Fix Work?’ stated that organisations which adopt AI early can boost employees’ creativity and productivity
Microsoft inks computing infrastructure deal with CoreWeave: Report
The Hindu - Fri 2 Jun 23Microsoft may spend billions of dollars over multiple years on computing infrastructure from start-up CoreWeave, CNBC reported
Japan privacy watchdog warns ChatGPT maker OpenAI on data collection
The Hindu - Fri 2 Jun 23Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission said it had issued a warning to OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed provider of the ChatGPT app, regarding user data
China warns of artificial intelligence risks, calls for beefed-up national security measures
The Hindu - Wed 31 May 23China's ruling Communist Party is calling for beefed-up national security measures, highlighting risks from artificial intelligence
EU industry chief to discuss AI rules with OpenAI CEO in June
The Hindu - Wed 31 May 23EU industry chief Thierry Breton will meet OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss how the company will implement AI rules
Top AI CEOs, experts raise 'risk of extinction' from AI
The Hindu - Wed 31 May 23“Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” the statement read
ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial, misunderstanding
The Hindu - Mon 29 May 23Here’s how you can be on alert.