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Chris Gilliard questions the potential of AI chatbots touted by their creators and promoters, highlighting their vulnerability to misuse by fascists, racists, transphobes, and other bad-faith actors.
In the classroom of the future—if there still are any—it’s easy to imagine the endpoint of an arms race: an artificial intelligence that generates the day’s lessons and prompts, a […]
By Chris Gilliard, Pete RorabaughChatGPT was hailed as one of 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November. The powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can generate text on almost any topic or […]
By Billy PerrigoAbstract, futuristic or science-fiction-inspired images of AI hinder the understanding of the technology’s already significant societal and environmental impacts. Images relating machine intelligence to human intelligence set unrealistic expectations and […]
By Better Images of AIOn 21 September OpenAI dropped Whisper, a speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of audio taken from the web. The highlight: it enables transcription in multiple languages, as well […]
By Keoni Mahelona, Gianna Leoni, Suzanne Duncan, Miles ThompsonSchmidt became CEO of Google in 2001, when the search engine had a few hundred employees and was barely making money. He stepped away from Alphabet in 2017 after building a sprawling, […]
By Will KnightLast week, the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping took steps to finally move away from its zero-COVID policy, following two weeks of protests in multiple cities. The unrest and […]
By Justin HendrixNSO Group’s business is founded on secrecy; it has refused to publicly identify its clients. In the statement, the company said it sells its software only to “legitimate government agencies” […]
By Ronan FarrowOpen the website of WorkIt Health, and the path to treatment starts with a simple intake form: Are you in danger of harming yourself or others? If not, what’s your […]
By Todd Feathers, Katie Palmer, Simon Fondrie-TeitlerThroughout my two decades in Silicon Valley, I have seen effective altruism (EA) – a movement consisting of an overwhelmingly white male group based largely out of Oxford University and […]
By Timnit GebruOverview: From the news stories we read to accessing information about our personal health, our everyday lives are shaped by technology. Indeed, technology creates new forms of positive connection and […]