An AI Force would likely push China to create its own. That arms race could turn a technology already slipping out of human control into a weapon.
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Navigating personal problems are a normal part of growing up. Young people are now turning to AI for help.
Instead of following European models, countries should take a more considered and contextualised approach to address AI risks.
Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.
The speed and scale of war are being enhanced by AI systems – but they also bring new risks for civilians and military combatants.
The rise of AI and synthetic biology has made deadly diseases look like a ‘low-risk, high-reward’ option for would-be terrorists.
In the absence of comprehensive federal AI regulation, states have stepped in. The Trump administration, at Big Tech’s urging, is attempting to roll back many of those laws.
Generative AI may appear to offer a shortcut, but without verification and expertise, it can easily mislead users.
In stress-testing AI models, it’s not hard to push them to the brink and make them threaten to harm humans.
A recent report found about three in four US teens have used AI companion apps – many of which have little to no safeguards from harmful content.
More autonomous AI systems that can use tools and work in teams are becoming increasingly common.
Existing efforts to regulate AI share a limitation: they’re built around intended use, not the messy, creative and often unintended ways it is actually being used.
When AI systems try to bridge gaps in their training data, the results can be wildly off the mark: fabrications and non sequiturs researchers call hallucinations.
AI systems can appear to be black boxes – often, even experts don’t know how systems reach their conclusions. The nascent field of “explainable AI” aims to address this problem.
As AI ‘companions’ permeate our most intimate spheres, we risk diminishing our own human essence by falsely attributing human qualities to them.
Visual effects artists fear the worst as AI tools continue to to be used in post-production processes.
One recent analysis of almost 100,000 deepfake porn videos found South Korean women and girls featured in more than half.
Don’t feel you need to rush out and enrol in a degree on how to become an AI engineer (unless, of course, that is where your interest and passion lie).
OpenAI has said it will take down the ChatGPT voice of Sky, which left Scarlett Johansson in ‘disbelief’. The actor previously played the role of an AI in the 2013 film Her.
The Australian government has finally released a response to last year’s public consultation on the safe and responsible use of AI. Here’s what it entails.
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