Worry About Misuse of AI, Not Superintelligence
Credit to Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
AI risks arise not from AI acting on its own, but because of what people do with it.
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Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous
Credit to Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000
AI creates what it’s told to, from plucking fanciful evidence from thin air, to arbitrarily removing people’s rights, to sowing doubt over public misdeeds.
Read moreThis AI Tool Helped Convict People of Murder. Then Someone Took a Closer Look
Credit to Author: Todd Feathers| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Global Intelligence claims its Cybercheck technology can help cops find key evidence to nail a case. But a WIRED investigation reveals the smoking gun often appears far less solid.
Read moreMillions of People Are Using Abusive AI ‘Nudify’ Bots on Telegram
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Bots that “remove clothes” from images have run rampant on the messaging app, allowing people to create nonconsensual deepfake images even as lawmakers and tech companies try to crack down.
Read moreWhat You Need to Know About Grok AI and Your Privacy
Credit to Author: Kate O’Flaherty| Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:30:00 +0000
xAI’s generative AI tool, Grok AI, is unhinged compared to its competitors. It’s also scooping up a ton of data that people post on X. Here’s how to keep your posts out of Grok—and why you should.
Read moreAI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream
Credit to Author: Jared Keller| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 10:00:00 +0000
The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces.
Read moreAmazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 22:15:21 +0000
AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites of major outlets, prompting an inquiry into potential rules violations.
Read moreA Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it’s trained on—that aims to spot the “shape” of bitcoin money laundering.
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