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Sam Altman's basic-income study is out. Here's what it found.
Sam Altman's basic-income study lasted three years and included 3,000 people, making it one of the …
Noah Sheidlower,Kenneth Nieme…
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A 'godfather of AI' says he's worried about AI eventually manipulating humans
Geoffrey Hinton is hailed as an AI trailblazer, but he's expressed regrets and worry over the techn…
Jordan Hart
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This OpenAI skeptic wants Sam Altman to make ChatGPT a force for good
Gary Marcus has emerged as a rare, vocal critic of the hype surrounding AI's leading company and it…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Tech bros have been at war this year. Here's a roundup of the biggest fights.
Whether it's Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg throwing punches or AI godfathers sniping at each other,…
Beatrice Nolan
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The 'stakes are too high' to ignore extinction risks of AI, AI godfather warns
Meta's Yann LeCun sparked a row last weekend after accusing some of the most prominent founders in …
Beatrice Nolan
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'Godfather of AI' says the technology could pose a 'more urgent' threat to humankind than climate change
"With climate change, it's very easy to recommend what you should do: you just stop burning carbon.…
Ryan Hogg
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Elon Musk backs up the 'Godfather of AI' who quit Google to warn the tech could harm humanity
Geoffrey Hinton recently explained to The New York Times why he believed that future versions of th…
Beatrice Nolan
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OpenAI exec says this is the most overhyped — and underhyped — thing about AI right now
Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI, said companies might be expecting too much from AI right now.
Jordan Hart
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Putin says Russia will develop new AI technology to counter the Western monopoly, which he fears could lead to a 'digital abolition' of Russian culture
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a new AI strategy on Friday, describing Western dominanc…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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The 'Godfather of AI' quit Google and says he now regrets his role creating technology that poses a threat to humanity
Geoffrey Hinton, who worked at Google for over a decade, told the New York Times he regrets his rol…
Grace Mayer
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'Godfather of AI' warns that 'bad actors like Putin or DeSantis' could use AI to win wars or manipulate voters
"Don't think for a moment that Putin wouldn't make hyper-intelligent robots with the goal of killin…
Britney Nguyen
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OpenAI has quietly changed its core values, and being 'thoughtful' and 'audacious' no longer makes the cut
Being "thoughtful," "audacious," and "impact-driven" are out. Instead, the company now values "AGI …
Kai Xiang Teo
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One of AI's 'godfathers' Yoshua Bengio says he feels 'lost' amid the technology's rapid, unexpected rise and says computer scientists need ethics training
Yoshua Bengio signed a statement Tuesday warning that AI could lead to extinction, along with fello…
Pete Syme
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AI experts are roasting the NYT list of 'who's who' in AI for having zero women
The New York Times' profile of "who's who" in AI features twelve men, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk…
Kai Xiang Teo
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Warren Buffett says AI is like the creation of the atom bomb — he often calls nuclear war his biggest fear
Buffett said AI had the ability to "change everything in the world except how men think and behave,…
Ryan Hogg
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Elon Musk poached a Google scientist and justified it by telling Larry Page he shouldn't have been 'so cavalier about AI safety'
"Larry felt betrayed and was really mad at me for personally recruiting Ilya, and he refused to han…
Kai Xiang Teo
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Musk once tried to stop Google's DeepMind acquisition in 2014, saying the future of AI shouldn't be controlled by Larry Page
Walter Isaacson, a writer who spent three years trailing Musk, recounted the background of Musk and…
Kai Xiang Teo
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DeepMind's cofounder has a simple solution to make sure AI doesn't kill us all
DeepMind co-head Mustafa Suleyman recently told the MIT Technology Review that we should regulate A…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Trump supporters and Christians are the most worried that AI is an existential threat to humanity, poll says
Respondents who voted for Donald Trump for the 2020 presidency and identify as Evangelical Christia…
Aaron Mok
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European lawmakers vote overwhelmingly in favor of adopting the first AI Act, a proposed law that aims to protect people from the technology's risks
The law aims to regulate advanced artificial intelligence and protect Europeans from its potential …