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'It won’t be so much a ghost town as a zombie apocalypse': How AI might forever change how we use the internetAI slop, chatbots and agentic AI are changing the internet, and could transform it beyond recognition, experts say.
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When an AI algorithm is labeled 'female,' people are more likely to exploit itPeople who played the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” were less likely to cooperate when the other player was a male human or AI, and exploited female players.
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Your AI-generated image of a cat riding a banana exists because of children clawing through the dirt for toxic elements. Is it really worth it?LLMs like Chat GPT come with major social costs — including child labor — that we can't ignore. Do we really need progress that's built on the suffering of others?
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Experts divided over claim that Chinese hackers launched world-first AI-powered cyber attack — but that's not what they're really worried aboutAnthropic said a Chinese espionage group used its Claude AI to automate most of a cyberattack campaign, but experts question how autonomous the operation really was, and what it means for the future of AI-powered hacking.
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Popular AI chatbots have an alarming encryption flaw — meaning hackers may have easily intercepted messagesCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a critical vulnerability in the architecture of large language models underpinning generative AI, but how dangerous is this flaw?
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Switching off AI's ability to lie makes it more likely to claim it's conscious, eerie study findsLeading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google described subjective, self-aware experiences when settings tied to deception and roleplay were turned down.
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The more that people use AI, the more likely they are to overestimate their own abilitiesResearchers found that AI flattens the bell curve of a common principle in human psychology, known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, giving us all the illusion of competence.
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New 'Dragon Hatchling' AI architecture modeled after the human brain could be a key step toward AGI, researchers claimScientists say a new kind of AI could bridge the gap between current systems and machines that learn and think more like us.
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Some people love AI, others hate it. Here's why.Whether you love or hate AI has a lot to do with how your brain processes risk and trust.
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