• Current, former OpenAI employees warn company not doing enough control dangers of AI

    Current, former OpenAI employees warn company not doing enough control dangers of AI

    Jun 05, 2024 10:35 PM EDT

    But we're seeing real risks play out every single day, whether it's the rise of deepfakes, whether it's A.I. being used to impersonate people, whether it's A.I. being used to supercharge dangerous misinformation around the Web. There are real risks that, according to these ...

  • Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral

    Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral

    May 31, 2024 08:58 PM EDT

    ... of website links. But some AI experts have long warned Google against ceding its search results to AI-generated answers that could perpetuate bias and misinformation and endanger people looking for help in an emergency. AI systems known as large language models work by predicting what words would best answer ...

  • U.S. military defends Africa strategy in light of coups and a drift toward Russia

    U.S. military defends Africa strategy in light of coups and a drift toward Russia

    May 30, 2024 09:59 PM EDT

    ... you looked at all social media and looked all across media writ large,” Langley said. “A lot of that negative sentiment was fueled by the misinformation and disinformation of the Russian Federation." WATCH: Millions living through nightmare as Sudan’s civil war brings killings, torture, famine “We need to get ...

  • California advances measures targeting AI discrimination and sexually abusive deepfakes

    California advances measures targeting AI discrimination and sexually abusive deepfakes

    May 30, 2024 05:57 PM EDT

    ... is already behind Europe in regulating AI to limit risks, lawmakers and experts say, and the rapidly growing technology is raising concerns about job loss, misinformation, invasions of privacy and automation bias. A slew of proposals aimed at addressing those concerns advanced last week, but must win the other chamber ...

  • WATCH: Biden, Harris launch Black voter outreach efforts with stop at Philadelphia school

    WATCH: Biden, Harris launch Black voter outreach efforts with stop at Philadelphia school

    May 29, 2024 04:38 PM EDT

    ... that their agenda has had an enormous impact on improving lives for Black voters. The Democratic president also argued that an “unhinged” Trump is peddling misinformation in an effort to win back the White House. “I'll be damned if I'm going to let Donald Trump turn America into ...

  • U.S. intelligence agencies' embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

    U.S. intelligence agencies' embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

    May 24, 2024 08:39 PM EDT

    ... data that officers aren't authorized to see. That's not stopping the experimentation, though, which is mostly happening in secret. WATCH: How AI-generated misinformation threatens election integrity An exception: Thousands of analysts across the 18 U.S. intelligence agencies now use a CIA-developed gen AI called Osiris ...

  • How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

    How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war

    May 22, 2024 06:32 PM EDT

    ... to build a more comprehensive picture of what happened. At the same time, any false accounts, even if produced without malice, lead to further polarization and pulls the focus away from victims, she argues. “Every bit of misinformation, disinformation — good faith or bad faith, mistakes or lies — is extremely destructive.”

  • A 2nd scourge is battering Brazil's flooded south: Disinformation

    A 2nd scourge is battering Brazil's flooded south: Disinformation

    May 15, 2024 08:47 PM EDT

    ... front lines helping the population.” Prodded by complaints from military brass, Brazil’s government is appealing to social media platforms to stop the spread of misinformation, Attorney General Jorge Messias said in an interview. As of late Tuesday, all had expressed willingness to cooperate — except X, according to Messias' office ...

  • Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk associated with bird flu

    Raw milk sales spike despite CDC's warnings of risk associated with bird flu

    May 14, 2024 02:40 PM EDT

    ... trust government officials. Such views are part of a larger problem of government mistrust and a rejection of expertise, said Matthew Motta, who studies health misinformation at Boston University. “It not that people are stupid or ignorant or that they don’t know what the science is,” he said. “They ...

  • California to tap generative AI tools to increase services access, reduce traffic jams

    California to tap generative AI tools to increase services access, reduce traffic jams

    May 10, 2024 12:50 AM EDT

    ... was found to dole out false guidance and advise companies to violate the law. The rapidly growing technology has also raised concerns about job loss, misinformation, privacy and automation bias. While state governments are struggling to regulate AI in the private sectors, many are exploring how public agencies can leverage ...