Category: Politics

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Greg Casar of Texas have introduced legislation that would prohibit the development of artificial superintelligence, according to a report from Democracy Now! The proposal, titled the “Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,” marks one of the most aggressive congressional attempts yet to place hard limits on the frontier of artificial…

American diplomats have been instructed to change the words they use when discussing the technology reshaping global politics and economics, according to reporting by The Associated Press. The guidance directs U.S. officials to favor the term “super intelligence” over the more familiar “artificial intelligence” in their communications, a shift that follows public remarks by President…

Connecticut’s Police Standards Council Takes Up Automated Cameras and Emerging Technology Connecticut’s Police Officer Standards and Training Council turned its attention this week to a subject that has become increasingly central to modern policing: the automated cameras and digital tools that are quietly reshaping how laws are enforced on the state’s roads and streets. The…

North Carolina’s state treasurer says artificial intelligence has helped route nearly $23 million to people and communities still recovering from Hurricane Helene, according to a report from WRAL. The figure highlights an increasingly common pairing in state government: aging record systems, enormous backlogs of data, and machine-learning tools that can sift through both far faster…

A Republican senator is calling for an investigation into the business dealings of Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden, according to NBC News, an unusual bipartisan framing that would place the adult sons of two presidents under the same congressional microscope. The call marks a departure from the way both men have typically been treated…

President Trump said that artificial intelligence will be referred to as “super intelligence” in U.S. government documents, a rhetorical rebranding that would touch how federal agencies describe one of the most consequential technologies of the decade. The remark, reported Tuesday, is the latest example of the president’s habit of assigning new names to institutions, policies…

President Donald Trump says he intends to stop calling artificial intelligence by its familiar name, telling reporters he prefers the term “super intelligence” instead, according to a report from The Washington Post. The remark, which quickly ricocheted across social media and industry newsletters, is the latest example of a president who has repeatedly shown a…

The United States and China have begun discussing the creation of a system that would allow each government to alert the other to artificial intelligence developments with potential national security implications, according to reporting published Monday by The New York Times. The talks reflect a growing recognition in Washington and Beijing that the two countries’…

President Donald Trump has said the United States will create a new body he called an “AI Force” and appoint a dedicated artificial intelligence tsar to oversee the government’s approach to the fast-moving technology, according to the BBC. The announcement, light on operational detail, signals the administration’s intent to place artificial intelligence at the centre…

The US military came close to a serious misstep after acting on an intelligence product generated with the help of artificial intelligence that turned out to be false, according to an exclusive CNN report published Friday that cited unnamed sources. Details of the incident remain limited, and CNN’s sources did not describe the episode publicly…