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OpenAI

AI goes nuclear

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

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Is the reign of tech titans coming to an end?

By Steven Feldstein | Disruptive Technologies

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California AI bill becomes a lightning rod—for safety advocates and developers alike

By Owen J. Daniels | Analysis

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How to better research the possible threats posed by AI-driven misuse of biology

By Matthew E. Walsh | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies

OpenAI’s new text-to-video app is impressive, at first sight. But those physics glitches…

By Gary Marcus | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

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

What happened when WMD experts tried to make the GPT-4 AI do bad things

By Thomas Gaulkin | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

The latest from AI research: automated fake news trolls

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia