“It is impossible for AI to access a fully autonomous lab and autonomously build a virus today because fully autonomous labs do not exist yet,”…
Category: Primers
Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
The debate of whether AI can kill us has been everywhere lately, but what would an actual AI catastrophe look like? This week, Brian Barrett,…
The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
Following multiple reports of AI agent swarms hacking websites and coordinating via secret message boards, along with a dire message for humanity from an outgoing…
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce's Party
Decked out in purple and plaid, Gwen Stefani belted her 2002 single “Underneath It All” to a packed conference center in San Francisco on Tuesday…
OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior
OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for how it publicly discloses AI misalignment incidents, which the company says it hopes will help inform similar…
Washington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon
For weeks, Washington has been abuzz with talk of needing to push through some sort of AI regulation amid mounting concerns about the risks of…
I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas
Meet PitchFly, WIRED’s latest editorial recruit. He has 165,112 neurons, and they’re all trained to generate story ideas. A sampling of his early output: “The…
AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’
For Hollywood stars, press junkets are an opportunity to promote new work while connecting with fans. They tell funny or embarrassing stories about one another,…
New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
For the best part of a decade, abusive deepfake “pornography” websites have published thousands of nonconsensual videos depicting women, including high-profile celebrities, politicians, and public…