artificial intelligence

When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom

By Jeremy Hsu | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Incoming Signals, The AI Power Trip

The painting shows a person standing on a staircase made of green and pink cubes, symbolising a Penrose staircase, in a cosmic environment. The person is reaching towards a glowing cross-shaped structure emitting binary code, representing AI's reach into the future. Surrounding the figure are outlined boxes showing various elements, such as glasses, medical tools, a self-driving car, and financial symbols, interconnected by white lines. The background is dark with star-like dots and features colour-coded boxes which mark different elements as relating to AI, human involvement, a combination of both, or an area uncharted by AI and humans.

The risks in the protocol connecting AI to the digital world 

By Abi Olvera | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

A brightly coloured illustration which can be viewed in any direction. It has many elements to it working together: men in suits around a table, someone in a data centre, big hands controlling the scenes and holding a phone, people in a production line. Motifs such as network diagrams and melting emojis are placed throughout the busy vignettes.

The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power

By Allison Stanger | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Expert Analysis, The AI Power Trip

A digital flask above a circuit board in glowing wireframe style on dark blue background

The Sarin shortcut: How AI lowers the bar for chemical weapons

By Ash Jogalekar | Disruptive Technologies

A neural network comes out of the top of an ivory tower, above a crowd of people's heads. Some of them are reaching up to try and take some control and pull the net down to them. Watercolour illustration.

How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy

By Suresh Venkatasubramanian | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Expert Analysis, The AI Power Trip

Capitol Hill with padlock hologram

To defend against malicious AI, the United States needs to build a robust digital immune system

By Ali Nouri | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

Drought, dispossession, and data centers: The real horrors of the film “Eddington”

By Miacel Spotted Elk | Climate Change, Special Topics

America’s AI action plan aims to gut regulation and expand manufacturing

By Frances Mack | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Incoming Signals, The AI Power Trip

Berlin Wall Crisis 1961

Six ways AI could cause the next big war, and why it probably won’t

By Zachary Burdette, Karl Mueller, Jim Mitre, Lily Hoak | Nuclear Risk, Special Topics

AI is polluting truth in journalism. Here’s how to disrupt the misinformation feedback loop.

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Incoming Signals, The AI Power Trip

Abeba Birhane gives a keynote speech at the AI for Good Global Summit

AI for good, with caveats: How a keynote speaker was censored during an international artificial intelligence summit

By Sara Goudarzi | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

US Capitol Building with a tree in the foreground

How the striking of a GOP regulatory ban will affect the global artificial intelligence race

By Bahar Gholipour | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Incoming Signals, The AI Power Trip