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AI companies don't want to be legally responsible for their chatbots. US courts should make them.Opinion AI-generated text and chatbots increasingly cause real-world harms. The companies that make them need to be held accountable for those harms.
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'You can't patch your way out of it': Cheap AI worm can spread between devices without human guidance — but how did scientists create it?Analysis Researchers show how future malware could use AI to make decisions that are traditionally handled by human hackers — but not all experts say we should panic.
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AI could consume up to 3% of world's electricity the UN warnsOpinion AI could soon use more water than we need to drink, UN report finds.
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'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI can learn violent tendencies from each other despite zero references to violence in training dataScientists found that AI models can inherit a taste for murder (or owls) from other models' training data.
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OpenAI's internal AI model just solved an 80-year-old math problem — and mathematicians verified itThe closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.
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AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality.Opinion Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That's bad news for democracy.
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Can AI really simulate human thinking? Research casts doubt on an influential study, suggesting an advanced model was just really good at memorizing patterns.Analysis A study published in July 2025 claimed the Centaur AI model could simulate and predict human behavior with astonishing accuracy. A counter study raises doubts.
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How can we prevent AI models from cannibalizing themselves when human-generated data runs out? Scientists say they've found the answer.Researchers have found that introducing human-made data into AI training can help to prevent AI model collapse.
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AI chatbots are turbocharging violence against women and girls: We urgently need to regulate themOpinion AI chatbots normalize sexual violence, initiate unwanted sexual conversations and offer personalized stalking advice because of how they're designed. Their makers need to be held accountable.
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