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A Radical Plan to Make AI Good, Not Evil
It’s easy to freak out about more advanced artificial intelligence—and much more difficult to know what to do about it. Anthropic, a…
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ChatGPT Can Help Doctors—and Hurt Patients
“Medical knowledge and practices change and evolve over time, and there’s no telling where in the timeline of medicine ChatGPT…
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Inside a Misfiring Government Data Machine
Last week, WIRED published a series of in-depth, data-driven stories about a problematic algorithm the Dutch city of Rotterdam deployed with…
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How to Start an AI Panic
Last week the Center for Humane Technology summoned over 100 leaders in finance, philanthropy, industry, government, and media to the…
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AI Chatbots Got Big—and Their Ethical Red Flags Got Bigger
Each evaluation is a window into an AI model, Solaiman says, not a perfect readout of how it will always…
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How to Spot AI-Generated Art, According to Artists
How long will the naked eye be able to spot the difference between images made by generative artificial intelligence and…
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The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace
You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from…
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San Francisco Just Reversed Its Killer Robot Plan
A week is a long time in politics—particularly when considering whether it’s okay to grant robots the right to kill…
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How to Stop Robots From Becoming Racist
In 2017, Holliday contributed to a RAND report warning that resolving bias in machine learning requires hiring diverse teams and…
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Blake Lemoine Says Google’s LaMDA AI Faces ‘Bigotry’
But it calls itself a person. Person and human are two very different things. Human is a biological term. It…
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