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Artificial Intelligence

Interview: ChatGPT has a holiday message for you all

By Sara Goudarzi, Thomas Gaulkin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock

Special: Will AI destroy art? Or just change it?

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI isn’t choosing our artistic future, we are

By Katie Peyton Hofstadter | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

AI is plundering the imagination and replacing it with a slot machine

By Annie Dorsen | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Is AI art’s true foe?

By Martin O’Leary | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, how to face a new era of global catastrophic risks

By Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Spotting Frankensteins: Why humans beat AI at detecting freakish fakes

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Why policy makers should beware claims of new ‘arms races’

By Haydn Belfield, Christian Ruhl | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Exterior of Supreme Court building.

After Roe’s overturn: the abortion surveillance state

By Carrie N. Baker | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Engineers Meeting in Robotic Research Laboratory. By Gorodenkoff. Standard license. stock.adobe.com

Do scientists need an AI Hippocratic oath? Maybe. Maybe not.

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

Cow. Credit: Roboiitgrs. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

Who hacked the slaughterhouse? When robots and AI take over farms

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Technology and Security

DeepMind’s David Silver speaks to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists about games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters. Photo provided by David Silver and used with permission.

DeepMind’s David Silver on games, beauty, and AI’s potential to avert human-made disasters

By Susan D’Agostino | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons