Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

The inaugural class of the YCombinator venture capital/startup accelerator was photographed in 2005. YCombinator provides seed money and advice to promising startups in exchange for a percentage of eq...

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

Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

But they still pose risks.

But they still pose risks.

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

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.

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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...

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