Category: Artificial Intelligence
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google Stop Short of AI Safety Guarantee
Major AI Labs Decline to Offer Safety Guarantees as Scrutiny Intensifies Four of the most influential companies in artificial intelligence u2014 OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google u2014 have stopped short of promising that their systems are safe, according to a Fox News report, underscoring a persistent gap between the industry’s confident public messaging and the…
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AI Critic Gary Marcus Warns ‘Reckless’ AI Could Cost Lives, Calls for Regulation
Cognitive scientist and longtime artificial intelligence skeptic Gary Marcus is again sounding the alarm about the pace of AI deployment, warning in a Fox Business interview that what he describes as “reckless” development of the technology could ultimately lead to deaths â and that governments have yet to put meaningful guardrails in place. Marcus, an…
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‘60 Minutes’ Transcript: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
CBS News has published the full transcript of a 60 Minutes segment examining artificial intelligence and its impact on the future of work â the latest sign that a debate once confined to research labs and tech conferences has moved squarely into prime-time television. The subject is a natural fit for the newsmagazine, which has…
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AI Is Being Taught How to Do Your Job — Will It Replace Us or Change How We Work?
Across offices, warehouses, hospitals and classrooms, artificial intelligence systems are being trained on the daily rhythms of human labor. They are learning how claims get processed, how code gets written, how customer complaints get resolved and how a first draft becomes a finished report. The question no longer seems hypothetical: if a machine can be…
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‘Claude-shaped Science’: Anthropic Asks What Research Looks Like With AI as a Collaborator
Anthropic has published a piece under the title Claude-shaped science, a phrase that neatly captures one of the more consequential questions hanging over research today: when powerful AI assistants become part of the scientific workflow, does science simply get faster â or does it start to take on the shape of the tools used to…
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OpenAI Turns Its Attention to Small Businesses Looking to Put AI to Work
OpenAI Turns Its Attention to Small Businesses Looking to Put AI to Work OpenAI is making a renewed push to help small businesses adopt artificial intelligence, signalling that the next phase of the technology’s rollout may be less about frontier research and more about the corner shop, the two-person design studio and the regional accounting…
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Trump Is Right — ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Is a Bad Name. I Suggest ‘Robo-Doodad.’
It isn’t often that a presidential aside about branding doubles as a genuinely interesting question about technology. But here we are. President Donald Trump has taken issue with the phrase “artificial intelligence,” objecting in particular to the word “artificial” â the suggestion being that there’s nothing fake about a machine that can write your emails,…
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Trump and Tech Leaders Sign Voluntary AI Safety Pact at White House
President Donald Trump and a group of leading technology executives have signed a voluntary agreement committing their companies to what the White House has described as “robust” safeguards for artificial intelligence systems, according to a report by Al Jazeera. The pact, which is not legally binding, marks the latest attempt by Washington to shape the…
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Trump Convenes AI Leaders, Floats ‘Self-Regulation’ as Answer to Technology’s Risks
President Donald Trump gathered a group of artificial intelligence industry leaders at the White House on Tuesday, using the meeting to float the idea that the fast-moving sector should largely police itself rather than submit to sweeping new federal rules. The suggestion of “self-regulation” places the administration firmly on the lighter-touch end of a debate…
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Meta Launches ‘Muse for Small Business’ as Zuckerberg Pushes Beyond Consumer AI
Meta is taking its artificial intelligence ambitions into new territory. The company has launched Muse for Small Business, a product aimed at the millions of merchants, restaurants, service providers and creators who already rely on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to find and keep customers, according to a CNBC report. The move marks a notable shift…
