Say you’re a guy who reads WIRED—you know a thing or two about artificial intelligence. You recognize the names of well-known people developing AI, like…
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AI Models Can Be Easily Modified to Assist Terrorist and Extremist Activity
“The bad news is the vast majority of AI models that are available—closed and open—are providing uplift to quite obvious terrorist prompts,” Hadley said. The…
An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive…
OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us
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…
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…