On September 10, two days after researcher Jacob Coxon, who had recently quit his job at Anthropic, sounded the alarm about the industry potentially bringing…
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Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Napster is back. The name that struck fear into the hearts of music executives in the early dotcom era may be coming to a classroom…
Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons
“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,”…
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…