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Smarter AI Assistants Could Make It Harder to Stay Human
Researchers and futurists have been talking for decades about the day when intelligent software agents will act as personal assistants,…
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People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse
Over the past year or so, you’ve probably had conversations with friends, family, and coworkers about the rise of generative…
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A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren’t Actually AI Doomers
This March, nearly 35,000 AI researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and concerned citizens signed an open letter from the nonprofit Future of…
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This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
Large language models like those powering ChatGPT and other recent chatbots have broad and impressive capabilities because they are trained…
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To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test
There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty…
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How to Tackle AI—and Cheating—in the Classroom
This past spring, as I closed out my 18th year of teaching, I felt anxiety that I’d never before felt…
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Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI
A year ago, the idea of holding a meaningful conversation with a computer was the stuff of science fiction. But…
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Meet Pause AI, the Protest Group Campaigning Against Human Extinction
The first time we speak, Joep Meindertsma is not in a good place. He tears up as he describes a…
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Runaway AI Is an Extinction Risk, Experts Warn
Leading figures in the development of artificial intelligence systems, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis,…
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Everyone Wants to Regulate AI. No One Can Agree How
I agree with every single one of those points, which can potentially guide us on the actual boundaries we might…
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