I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

A review of Adam Becker’s book

Dirtbag dept.

The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates

The historian and journalist on a presidency that’s both greedier and more ambitious than the first version

A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.

Our report developing an understanding of abuse on dating platforms in order to support interventions from policymakers and dating platforms

The rise of open source self-driving systems like openpilot have made it easy for anyone to run custom tech to control your car.

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert

Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.

The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

Collects and categorises symbols, with automated analysis for law enforcement and community workers.

Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.

OpenAI didn’t tell Australia about the hack for weeks — raising serious questions about how it handles rogue AI incidents

The notion that ideas have lifecycles has many antecedents.

Three takeaways from the Pro-Human Assembly in D.C. and what it revealed about the growing movement

“Writing is thinking, and thinking is the ultimate solitary act. No matter the tech, at some point, you’re still just solo with a page trying to fill it.”

The ruling is a victory for Trump’s efforts to give the federal government a larger role in election administration.

The International Court of Justice is expected to deliver its ruling in the genocide case against Myanmar next month.

Fondly known as the ‘goth’ of New Zealand’s bird world, the black robin now has a population of 350 adults thanks to a pioneering breeding programme

Words and phrases that made it into the dictionary include “shapewear,” “looksmaxxing” and “superfood.”

Rome, Kodak, and Newtonian physics all peaked. Whatever you're building will too.

A Labour leader is out of control. The world needs a containment strategy now

On the Cornell Seven

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit contend they are not against the AI companies asking Congress, the White House or any other agency to develop AI regulation.

A proposed tri-generation system uses a small modular reactor to deliver clean electricity, hydrogen fuel and desalinated water from the same energy source

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...

Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.

There are important legal considerations implicated by ICE’s use of ELITE, write Sarah Engelberg-Nolan, Emma Haberman and Nicole Brosnan.

NEW YORK (AP) — OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.

The racialized, uneven consequences of these technologies often go unscrutinized, write Tsion Gurmu, Nekessa Opoti and Fatima Mohamed.

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

For International Safe Abortion Day: September 28

I did it, I wrote about it, I’m sorry

The team printed a honeycomb and a Canadian maple leaf, both roughly the size of a single grain of sand.

In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.

Dossier editors: Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Brandner, Marcos Dias, Diogo Pereira Henriques and Sara Trentham-Black Scott Rodgers, Helena Atteneder, Lou Brandner, Marcos Dias, …

Today’s tidal wave of queries is forcing hardware makers to pivot

The x-risk of super intelligence going rogue must be addressed, and mint trillion dollar companies in the process. Plus: How workers can beat the tech oligarchy

In Budapest, Bike Maffia is a household name among homelessness initiatives, with cyclists seeing firsthand how very different social problems end up under the same roof

“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A...