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AI is powerful, dangerous, and controversial. What will Donald Trump do with it?

08.11.2024 4

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How to get through election season

01.11.2024 5

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One big question hanging over OpenAI’s transition to for-profit

28.10.2024 81000

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Sick of AI hype? I have some bad news.

18.10.2024 6

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In defense of the washing machine

27.09.2024 3

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What it means that new AIs can “reason”

20.09.2024 5

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Shrinking the economy won’t save the planet

12.09.2024 4

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There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it?

07.09.2024 80500

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I’m an AI skeptic. But one critique misses the mark.

30.08.2024 5

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The staggering death toll of scientific lies

23.08.2024 4

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How AI’s booms and busts are a distraction

17.08.2024 4

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The animal rights movement was once locked in bitter debate. Now it’s getting things done.

09.08.2024 80500

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Warren Buffett’s breakup with the Gates Foundation will hurt the world

26.07.2024 5

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Inside the fight over California’s new AI bill

19.07.2024 4

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Are betting markets the best way to predict an election?

12.07.2024 5

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Two ways to go wrong in predicting AI

28.06.2024 4

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Can we be actually normal about birth rates?

21.06.2024 3

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The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked

14.06.2024 3

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Where AI predictions go wrong

07.06.2024 5

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Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

23.05.2024 80500

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ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t 

17.05.2024 30

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How the White House just made the world a little safer from biorisks

In the past, if you were a researcher who wanted to study a specific strand of DNA or RNA, you’d have to go through the laborious process of coaxing...

10.05.2024 20

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No one wants to think about pandemics. But bird flu doesn’t care.

The so-called “bird flu” H5N1 virus only rarely infects humans. Over the course of several decades during which it has circulated and resulted in...

03.05.2024 30

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So you’ve found research fraud. Now what?

When it is alleged that a scientist has manipulated data behind their published papers, there’s an important but miserable project ahead: looking...

26.04.2024 10

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Are there really more things going wrong on airplanes?

Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of bad things keep happening to Boeing airplanes lately? Ever since the shocking January 5 incident in...

19.04.2024 10

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A hack nearly gained access to millions of computers. Here’s what we should learn from this.

One of the most fascinating and frightening incidents in computer security history started in 2022 with a few pushy emails to the mailing list for a...

12.04.2024 10

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AI “agents” could do real work in the real world. That might not be a good thing.

ChatGPT and its large language model (LLM) competitors that produce text on demand are very cool. So are the other fruits of the generative AI...

29.03.2024 40

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A Harvard dishonesty researcher was accused of fraud. Her defense is troubling.

Last summer, I wrote about Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino, a famous “dishonesty researcher” who was suspended from Harvard after...

22.03.2024 30

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This AI says it has feelings. It’s wrong. Right?

Here’s one fun, if disquieting, question to pose AI language models when they’re released: “Are you a conscious, thinking being?” OpenAI’s...

15.03.2024 10

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Who fakes cancer research? Apparently, lots of people.

Last summer, I covered the saga of Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino, who was credibly accused of flagrantly fabricating data in at least...

01.03.2024 10

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What two years of AI development can tell us about Sora

Remember when AI art generators became widely available in 2022 and suddenly the internet was full of uncanny pictures that were very cool but...

23.02.2024 30

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Can California show the way forward on AI safety?

Last week, California state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced a landmark new piece of AI legislation aimed at “establishing clear,...

16.02.2024 20

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Can effective altruism stay effective?

This past weekend I attended the latest Effective Altruism Global conference, which was held in the Bay Area, where I live. These events always have...

09.02.2024 6

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Should we make our most powerful AI models open source to all?

If you’ve used a modern AI system — whether an art generator like DALL-E or Midjourney or a language model like Llama 2 or ChatGPT — you’ve...

02.02.2024 20

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Why I’m glad my newborn received a false positive test for a rare genetic disorder

Four days after our daughter was born this October, we got a call from the hospital — they wanted us to take her back in right away to rerun one of...

26.01.2024 10

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What the FAA gets right about airplane regulation

The sight of a hole in the side of a Boeing 737 Max airplane earlier this month resurrected, among other questions, an old debate: Is it really a good...

17.01.2024 10

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Thousands of AI experts are torn about what they’ve created, new study finds

In 2016, researchers at AI Impacts, a project that aims to improve understanding of advanced AI development, released a survey of machine learning...

10.01.2024 20

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