Archive: June 2018

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is trying to make it very clear that political contributions made by its leaders do not necessarily reflect the company’s views. “Our employees are free to participate in the political process in their personal capacities, including by donating or providing advice to candidates, campaigns, and political organizations. When they do that, they speak for themselves and not OpenAI,” the company said in a statement Monday. Op

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Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more The daily use of artificial intelligence in study routines may be associated with worse performance in assessments. Data from Pisa, released by the OECD, shows that 15-year-old students who rely on chatbots daily for certain school tasks obtain lower grades than peers who almost never use the technology.In Brazil, almost half of the students already use AI to study. The data itself, however, shows that the

Project 2029, the small liberal group founded to create a roadmap for any Democrat who takes the White House in the 2028 presidential election, announced its first policy proposal on Monday. While the Democratic base is calling for things like Medicare for All and for every Trump official to be tossed into prison, Project 2029 has a different idea. They want to ban kids from social media. Project 2029 announced the new proposal, dubbed “Kids Over Clicks,”

Companies want autonomous IT operations but hesitate to let AI act alone Ninety percent of companies want to move toward autonomous IT operations over the next two years, with agentic AI, software that plans and carries out multi-step tasks on its own, doing the work. Yet 77 percent say their own organization hesitates to let AI make an operational decision without a human approving it. Most of those companies mean autonomy with a person at the approval st

OpenAI says that users are fully in control of the purchases, as they’re able to review the items, the total, and the payment card that will be used to complete the transaction before the checkout occurs. In addition, users will approve the purchases directly with a security check like Face ID or a fingerprint, which creates a record of their transaction. The addition comes as consumer-facing AI tools are working to find the right product-market fit, in te

Getty / Futurism Earlier this month, news emerged that Michael Burry, who famously shorted the US housing market before its collapse in 2008, had placed bets worth over $1 billion against the share prices of AI chipmaker Nvidia and software company Palantir. The reveal compounded existing concerns that the AI industry was growing into an enormous bubble that could take the US economy with it. However, the famed asset manager’s story has taken several wild

Companies are spending more on AI governance and getting less control Companies are increasing their cybersecurity budgets, with AI security and governance the top priority for additional spending, followed by cloud security, according to DNSFilter’s The Cost of Shadow AI report. Some 74.5% of respondents reported a larger cybersecurity budget than 12 months earlier. Asked where their next incremental security dollar would go, 40.3% named AI security and g

Getty / Futurism You know the old adage “don’t believe everything you see on the internet”? In the age of AI, it’s never been more relevant. Late in December, Denver Bronco’s beat writer Cody Roark was surprised to learn he was dead, leaving behind a 5 year old child. As far as he knew, he had never fathered a child, and was very much still alive. Yet that’s not what the post on Facebook claimed. There, an image shared by the page “Wild Horse Warriors” fea

AI companies have already scraped much of the public internet to train their models. Now Amazon is turning to Twitch streamers. Twitch announced Wednesday that it is adding a new account setting that allows users to opt out of having content from their channels used to train parent company Amazon’s generative AI models. The catch is the the setting is turned on by default. “Generative AI content models are AI tools that can help create or synthesize conten

Conceptual figure illustrating the ecological interpretation of a toy Gromov–Wasserstein optimal transport plan. Credit: Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.70130 Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening new ground in ecology. At Rice University, César A. Uribe is developing computational tools to help scientists better understand ecosystems with recent studies using AI to glean new insights from different kinds of ecological dat

Everything about Artificial Intelligence view more Researchers developed a technology capable of identifying, through brain signals, when an artificial intelligence (AI) misinterpreted a person's intention. The proposal is to allow AI systems to detect a kind of "this wasn't what I meant" without the user needing to verbalize the correction.The work was developed by researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), in collabo

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images As AI companies warn of mass automation and the end of work as we know it, ChatGPT maker OpenAI has published a sweeping policy paper outlining its vision of who should call the shots once “superintelligent AI” goes online. Beneath the paper’s flowery rhetoric is something familiar: a powerful corporation arguing that the best way to provide for the poorest people in the world is to let t

Frontier AI models threaten to upend cybersecurity as we know it, and there have been multiple incidents of models breaking containment during training and hacking systems without guidance or permission while avoiding human detection. Yet it seems there is still one thing that these extremely powerful pieces of technology simply cannot do: solve a CAPTCHA efficiently. Anthropic dropped a massive missive regarding recent cybersecurity incidents involving it

Five years ago, it would’ve taken some serious mental gymnastics to find something that Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon would’ve unequivocally agreed on. But in this age of AI—when agents conspire with one another to commit cybercrimes and the president of the United States brushes off what many experts consider to be a legitimately existential threat while golfing in Ireland—stranger things have happened. The two unlikely compatriots will meet on Tuesday

The internet, as you’ve undoubtedly noticed, has been aflame in recent days with fears of an AI-triggered apocalypse. For some—most notably Donald Trump—it’s all overblown doomerism. But for many others, it’s a long overdue reckoning with an industry and a technology that’s been allowed to fly out of control. Among that latter group, debates have been swirling about potential new legal regimes to rein in AI development before the field achieves full-blown