How do you know when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous? Regulators are trying to do the math

How do you know when an artificial intelligence system is so powerful that it poses a security risk and should not be deployed without careful oversight? For regulators trying to constrain AI, it’s mostly about the math. Specifically, an AI model trained on 10 to the 26th of floating-point operations per second must now be … Read more

According to experts at MIT, AI can go wrong in 700 ways. These are the 5 most harmful to humanity

As artificial intelligence (AI) technology continues to develop and become increasingly integrated into different aspects of our lives, the need to understand the potential risks these systems pose increases. Since the introduction of AI and its increasing accessibility to the public, there has been widespread concern about the potential harm AI can cause and the … Read more

The disability community has long struggled with “useful” technologies – lessons for everyone in dealing with AI

You may have heard that artificial intelligence is going to revolutionize everything, save the world and give everyone superhuman powers. Or you may have heard that it’s going to take away your job, make you lazy and stupid, and turn the world into a cyberpunk dystopia. Think of another way to look at AI: as … Read more

AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data may run out of human-written text

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what makes them smarter: the tens of trillions of words people have written and shared online. A new study published Thursday by research group Epoch AI shows that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by the … Read more

AI may be the cause of our inability to contact alien civilizations

This article was originally published on The conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com Expert voices: opinion pieces and insights. Michael Garrett is Sir Bernard Lovell, Chairman of Astrophysics and Director of Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, University of Manchester. Artificial intelligence (AI) has made astonishing progress in recent years. Some scientists are now … Read more

Building fairness into AI is crucial – and difficult to do well

Artificial intelligence’s ability to process and analyze large amounts of data has revolutionized decision-making processes, making operations in healthcare, finance, criminal justice and other sectors of society more efficient and, in many cases, more effective. However, this transformative power comes with a significant responsibility: the need to ensure that these technologies are developed and deployed … Read more

Ethical AI isn’t to blame for Google’s Gemini debacle

In this photo illustration, the Google Gemini logo is seen in the background of a silhouette of a person using a notebook. (Photo illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Credit – Rafael Henrique-SOPA Images/LightRocket EEarlier this month, Google released its highly anticipated system ‘Gemini’, giving users access to AI image generation technology for … Read more