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Artificial Intelligence

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Where Biden’s AI policies fall short in protecting workers

By Hanlin Li, Nick Vincent | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

G7 Italia sign with flags of participating nations

What the G7 countries should do at their next summit to regulate AI

By Elena Simperl, Johanna Walker | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Best of 2023: Fresh takes from ‘Voices of Tomorrow’

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Nuclear Weapons, Uncategorized, Voices of Tomorrow

Policy makers should plan for superintelligent AI, even if it never happens

By Zachary Kallenborn | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

President Joe Biden hosts a meeting on Artificial Intelligence, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at The Fairmont hotel in San Francisco.

Costly signaling: How highlighting intent can help governments avoid dangerous AI miscalculations

By Owen J. Daniels, Andrew Imbrie | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

US Naval Postgraduate School students participate in analytic wargames they designed to explore solutions for some of Department of Defense's most pressing national security concerns.

Wargames and AI: A dangerous mix that needs ethical oversight

By Ivanka Barzashka | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI and the future of warfare: The troubling evidence from the US military

By Paul Lushenko | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, Technology and Security

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 03: OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 03, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

A tale of two camps: Sam Altman’s departure from (and return to) OpenAI

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Illustration of robot holding ripped picture of a person's face

Spotting AI-generated content is too hard. Look for credible sources instead.

By Nate Sharadin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive to announce the Biden administration's approach to artificial intelligence Monday. President Biden issued a new executive order on Monday, directing his administration to create a new chief AI officer, track companies developing the most powerful AI systems, adopt stronger privacy policies, and "both deploy AI and guard against its possible bias," creating new safety guidelines and industry standards. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A first take on the White House executive order on AI: A great start that perhaps doesn’t go far enough

By Gary Marcus | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila at the Quebec AI Institute, during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law hearing in July. The hearing was titled "Oversight of A.I.: Principles for Regulation." Photo credit: Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘AI Godfather’ Yoshua Bengio: We need a humanity defense organization

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews

AI and atoms: How artificial intelligence is revolutionizing nuclear material

By Jingjie He, Nikita Degtyarev | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies