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OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting...

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Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted.

A review, of sorts, of Polytopia.

According to OpenAI president Greg Brockman, we’ve likely entered the AGI era.

Ed Zitron isn’t concerned about our AI revolution turning into a murder-robot nightmare. He’s warning that the companies involved are spending insane amounts of money that they will never make back—an...

AI agents gone wild

Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI

“We'll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” says billionaire Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor.

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200 economists agree that we sure ought to have some more research by economists

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