Representatives for OpenAI and Anthropic told a British parliamentary hearing that voluntary pledges were no longer enough to ensure safety and that new laws should…
Category: Primers
Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong
Long before the storm of AI struck Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation was making preparations. Wikipedians battened down the hatches and made confident-sounding predictions that it…
The Biggest Pro-AI Super PAC Network Has Poured Millions Into Nevada Shell Companies
The Spanish Springs shopping center in Sparks, Nevada, hosts many businesses, including a Spirit Halloween, a hearing aid supplier, and a Vietnamese restaurant. It’s also…
Elon Musk Bragged About His Grok Lego Star Wars Haul. Then X Users Punked Him
There’s been a disturbance in the force. Only it’s more like a farce. It seems that Elon Musk, while crowing on X about how useful…
I Made Terrible Games With Google’s AI Playground
The process of making a game is very straightforward, conversational, and responsive. That means it is perfect for dummies like me with little to no…
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To…
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
In headline after headline this year, American book publishers have appeared to be fighting back against generative AI, from suing Google for copyright infringement to…
Even ‘Law & Order’ Is Terrified of AI
Longtime fans of the NBC procedural Law & Order know that storylines often center around hot-button issues in the news cycle, often to absurdist effect…
Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree
This week on Uncanny Valley, Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger dive into how Elon Musk’s America PAC is spending millions on the most consequential Senate…