The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

Critics argue that Axon, a Flock rival, brings similar privacy issues.

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

Powered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.

Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender write that claims of "Artificial General Intelligence" are a cover for abandoning the current social contract.

A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.

In over a third of Illinois counties, cops, sheriffs, and even prosecutors helped federal immigration agents route at least 150 people into the deportation system since Trump returned to office, despi...

Maryland has one of the strictest data privacy laws in the country. But privacy advocates allege data brokers are violating the law by selling data to police and federal immigration agencies.

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

Harvard disclosed a $2.2 billion stake in SpaceX on Friday, making billionaire Elon Musk’s aerospace company by far the largest holding in the Harvard Management Company’s publicly reported stock port...

AI student monitoring software disproportionately harms LGBTQ+ students and students with disabilities -- and the federal protection is gone. The Department of Education removed disparate-impact enfor...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency’s policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

Congress and state and local governments must create new safeguards around the collection, integration, and misuse of people’s data to protect privacy and First Amendment rights.

The ubiquity and ease of use of large language models makes it easy to overlook the interactional and interpretive processes at play. To understand the attraction of this technology we need to trace i...

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.

Alternita platform uses Google Gemini, OpenAI and Claude to create provocative social media posts