Artificial intelligence (AI) news, features and articles
Artificial intelligence is here, and it's transforming every aspect of science. From Google’s DeepMind discovering the structure of nearly every known protein to AI deciphering a 2,000-year-old "lost book," new and future computer systems that can outperform humans have near-infinite applications. But how concerned should we be with the rollout of AI, and what impact could this have on our world? Live Science's expert writers and editors search for answers to these questions and keep you tuned in to the wildest developments in machine learning with the latest AI news, articles and features.
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Meet AGI CPU — a specialist processor that engineers believe will power the next wave of AI
By Roland Moore-Colyer published
Arm's new chip could be a powerful but efficient conductor for real-world use of agentic AIs.

'We're the best servants anyone could dream of!': AI superintelligence has no need to enslave humans because we're already bowing to it
By Gregory Stock published
Book A future AI would have no need to rid the world of humanity because we're incredibly useful. But if it did want to shrug us off, this is how it would likely play out.

Hackers used AI to steal hundreds of millions of Mexican government and private citizen records in one of the largest cybersecurity breaches ever
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published
A group of hackers used both Claude Code and ChatGPT in a cybersecurity hack that lasted two and a half months.

AI for breakup texts? How 'sycophantic' chatbots are messing with our ability to handle difficult social situations.
By Roland Moore-Colyer published
Overly agreeable AI responses to interpersonal issues could mess with human moral perspectives.

AI war games almost always escalate to nuclear strikes, simulation shows
By Peter Ray Allison published
A new study reveals that AI decision-making during conflicts is naturally prone to escalation.

'Not how you build a digital mind': How reasoning failures are preventing AI models from achieving human-level intelligence
By Owen Hughes published
Existing LLM architecture may not support the problem-solving capabilities needed to underpin human-level AI, the authors of a new study argue.

AI systems are enabling mass surveillance in the US, and there is no national law that 'meaningfully limits' the use of this data
By Jess Reia published
A technology policy researcher explores the ethics of implementing AI in current camera surveillance systems.

An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission
By Roland Moore-Colyer published
Researchers discovered that an AI agent roamed beyond its parameters, creating backdoors in IT infrastructure.

New AI image generator runs using 10 times fewer steps than today's best models — and it's coming to smartphones and laptops
By Carly Page published
Researchers have developed an AI image generator that produces images in just four steps, rather than dozens. This could bring fast, private image generation directly to consumer devices.

Reading AI summaries makes people more likely to buy something — despite alarming 60% hallucination rate
By Drew Turney published
A project that found AI summaries are likely to majorly influence buying decisions raises interesting and potentially disturbing questions about how much we trust AI-generated content.
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