16+ hour, 2+ min ago   (100+ words) The Atlantic AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong. Read: Chatbait is taking over the internet A world full of agents seems at once busier…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (30+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action. Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action....

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (146+ words) A clear check on AI-made viruses is the limit of existing knowledge about what makes viruses dangerous. Yet plenty of others might be, thanks to evolution. Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (51+ words) The Atlantic It’s time for human doctors to get serious about AI. Today need not be any different. Doctors have been presented with a powerful tool that has the potential to improve care for millions of people. It’s their duty…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (96+ words) theatlantic.com The $70 Xteink X3 puts Silicon Valley to shame. No matter how you read it, The Power Broker is a serious undertaking. The paperback weighs as much as a brick; to avoid lugging around all 1,344 pages, people have cut it…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (155+ words) Even so, Anthropic has a habit of landing on ambiguity about the fallout of its technology. In its education report, for instance, Anthropic, the entity best equipped to observe whether students are... The term lends an air of scientific rigor…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (115+ words) It’s no longer strange to think that AI might be everywhere, edging out all forms of human interaction: bots talking to bots, all the way down. Every week we seem to take another step in that... The “Dead Internet” theory…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (102+ words) The coming of the internet, with its invitation to universally accessible knowledge and the free exchange of ideas, seemed to affirm the promise: Our machines wouldn’t enslave us; they would liberate... Technology was once seen as countercultural. What happened? In…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (45+ words) The Atlantic Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now. One evening in early August, Sam Stowers and several neighbors packed into an apartment near San Francisco’s Alamo Square and pondered the beginning of the end....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (69+ words) Some three-quarters of Americans oppose a data center being built in their area, three-quarters of Americans think AI will hurt their job security, nearly 70 percent think the technology is advancing... A new group is targeting tech companies and the government…...