As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

Sure, seems safe.

The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.

A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.

"Saturday Night Live" took on the AI industry’s recent warnings of doom last night, as cast member Jane Wickline offered her impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

In our last column, "When Ethics and Legal Rules Collide: Breaking Terms of Service to Collect Data," we touched on the distinction between ethics and law in the context of researchers violating terms...

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

Flawed premises in “AI” doomerism As I have written many times before, I am an “AI” skeptic. It feels almost quaint at this point to share that, as Silicon Valley drowns the news in both the …

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Psychology researcher Peter Gray accuses his ex-colleague of stoking a moral panic.

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There are dozens of ALPR companies doing the same sort of invasive surveillance as Flock Safety, including Axon, Vigilant, PlateSmart, and many more.

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature...

Researchers say artificial intelligence is developing faster than the systems put in place to monitor and control it.

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.

Arm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease.

The action in the Los Angeles Unified School District comes after officials adopted strict screen time limits.