The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

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

Dartmouth said it would investigate its provost over A.I. accusations. Similar controversies on other campuses have prompted frustration among students.

Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its IPO that advanced ​AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the same technology.

Columbia has prohibited the use of electronic devices in all Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization sections starting this fall, 12 syllabi for the courses reviewed by Spectator show and ...

When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.

The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.

ALT: Why Not Both? - HIMYM Marshall Eriksen

In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to “slow down” and offered a three-part plan for doing so, saying that his company would “unilaterally” commit to the first of the steps. In a post on social media, Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier in which he lays out how Anthropic would provide “third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training”. Continue reading...

The warnings come amid a push by some AI executives for a coordinated slowdown in AI development.

University presidents, don’t be fooled.

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.

Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.

Three N.C. college students lead a fight to restore campus voting access after officials eliminated early voting sites at the nation’s largest HBCU.

Richmond’s last three Confederate statues are now gone, but across the South they remain.

A federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded.

In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.

In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.

At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

Ditch Fridays, and also long, stupid meetings.

Time magazine has begun serving ads specifically aimed at AI agents, as Digiday reports, with the hope of generating some much-needed revenue