The trial of man who conversed with AI before assassination plot continues
Jaswant Singh Chail, a man apprehended on the grounds of Windsor Castle in 2021 with a loaded crossbow, reportedly had a deep connection with an AI…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Ethics & Society
Exploring the societal and ethical dimensions of AI’s influence and integration.
MIT professor highlights the risks of intense AI development
Max Tegmark, MIT professor, physicist, and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, has raised concerns about the relentless pace of AI development. He suggests that…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
US colleges discourage use of Turnitin’s AI detection feature
Several universities, including Vanderbilt, Michigan State, Northwestern, and the University of Texas at Austin, are refraining from using Turnitin, which detects AI-generated content in student submissions. …
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
George R.R. Martin and 17 other writers file lawsuit against OpenAI
OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit from prominent authors, including George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, and 17 others, alleging copyright infringement while training its AI systems.…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Legal ambiguity surrounds deep fake nudes sent to Spanish teens
In Almendralejo, a small town in southern Spain, more than 20 teenage girls recently discovered they had received artificially generated naked images of themselves on their…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Mustafa Suleyman: “generative AI is just a phase”
Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind and CEO of AI startup Inflection AI, believes that the industry’s future lies in interactive bots. “Generative AI is just…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
ChatGPT beats Bing Chat in triage of ophthalmic conditions
Researchers from the Department of Ophthalmology at Atlanta’s University School of Medicine evaluated how well AI chatbots fared when performing triage of ophthalmic conditions. The research…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Anger over MSN’s apparently AI-generated news article
Microsoft’s MSN is receiving a lot of backlash in response to an article on its portal that seems to have been written by AI, rather than…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
YouTube channels are targeting children with AI-generated disinformation
A detailed investigation by BBC journalists has unearthed an alarming trend of AI-generated YouTube videos filled with false “scientific” information aimed at misleading young viewers. The…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
AI and machine learning join the fight to protect the Amazon
The Amazon Rainforest, covering a vast 2.3 million square miles, is the world’s largest rainforest and most biodiverse region. Spread across nine countries, the Amazon is…
By Sam Jeans · 6 min read