Science Dec 23 AI-assisted wildlife surveillance is 'urgently needed,' new paper shows AI-assisted wildlife surveillance is “urgently needed” as some 28 percent of all plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, according to a paper published in the academic journal Science this summer.
Nation Dec 22 OpenAI whistleblower who raised legal concerns about ChatGPT's datasets has died Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.
Nation Sep 04 Regulators turn to math to determine when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous How do you know if an artificial intelligence system is so powerful that it poses a security danger and shouldn’t be unleashed without careful oversight? For regulators, it’s mostly about the arithmetic.
Nation Jul 30 White House says no need to restrict open-source AI, for now The White House is coming out in favor of “open-source” artificial intelligence technology, arguing there’s no need now for restrictions on companies making key components of their powerful AI systems widely available.
Economy Jun 06 AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text as early as 2026 A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by roughly the turn of the decade -- sometime between 2026 and 2032.
Politics May 31 Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral Google has largely defended its AI overviews feature, saying it is typically accurate. But the head of Google's search business acknowledged in a blog post that there were some odd, inaccurate or unhelpful responses.
Politics May 23 Biden White House to tech industry: Shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes By committing to a set of specific measures, officials hope the private sector can curb the creation, spread and monetization of such nonconsensual AI images, including explicit images of children.
Politics May 15 Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on artificial intelligence after finishing yearlong review A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it.
Politics Mar 28 VP Harris says U.S. agencies must show their AI tools aren't harming people's safety or rights Vice President Kamala Harris says government agencies that use AI tools will be required to verify that those tools do not endanger the rights and safety of the American people.
Politics Mar 13 AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms With the election in full swing, it's time to "put some foots down on election-related stuff for a bit," Midjourney CEO David Holz told several hundred members of the service's devoted userbase in a digital office hours event Wednesday.