The Dutch tax authority ruined thousands of lives after using an algorithm to spot suspected benefits fraud — and critics say there is little stopping it from happening again.

AI researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence may have figured out a way to endow machines with a rudimentary ability to make moral decisions in real-world settings."

The BBC finds YouTube videos in more than 20 languages spreading disinformation disguised as science content.

Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works

To mitigate risks, developers need more training

The ability to develop crisp mental models around the problems you want to solve and understanding the why before you start working on the how is an increasingly critical skill, especially in the age...

Tomasz Żuradzki Recently our philosophy faculty at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, like many institutions around the world, introduced a ranking of journals based on Elsevier’s Scopus database t…

What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Folly of AI

A specter is haunting the landscape—the specter of generative AI. First came fears that student cheating would explode, plus that artists and actors would be unemployed. Then the ante was upped: So…

The Biden administration said Tuesday it is seeking public comments on potential accountability measures for artificial intelligence (AI) systems as questions loom about its impact on national...

Predictive algorithms risk creating self-fulfilling prophecies, reinforcing preexisting biases. This is largely because it does not distinguish between causation and correlation. To prevent this, we...

The country's data-protection regulator has serious privacy concerns over the technology.

Part of being human is being able to defy the odds. Algorithmic prophecies undermine that.

Vehicle data privacy has been a concern for years.

Could AI’s rhetorical edge lead us astray? New research suggests that we find computer-generated moral reasonings more appealing than those penned by humans.

The long read: Artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous

Forcing apps to ask for permission to track users for advertising purposes leads to big hit for social media platforms

What are neurorights? Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are building tech to read our minds. Lawyers are trying to protect our mental privacy from Silicon Valley through neurorights.

More than ever, we’re challenged to define what’s valuable about being human.

Italy’s recent ban of Open AI’s generative text tool may just be the beginning of ChatGPT's regulatory woes.

Today's LLMs are built on a foundation of data theft, exploitative labor practices, and unsustainable energy and water consumption.

In the guise of collecting scientific data, data brokers are running a massive privacy invasion. Researchers should stop helping them

The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was the star speaker of the summit.

The company announced a new technique to make the workings of its systems more transparent, but people familiar with OpenAI say more oversight is needed.

Generative AI is everywhere these days, from bank chatbots to fast food screens. But are people actually finding the tech very useful?

Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.

Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.

Authors keep finding what appear to be AI-generated imitations and summaries of their books on Amazon. There's little they can do to rein in the rip-offs.

Perhaps we shouldn’t trust a billionaire who’s been reckless with personal information that he wants to exploit yet again.

Government and private companies will be using advanced AI and other tech to conduct pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during, and after the Games.

Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry’s next big thing.

No avanzaremos si el futuro digital perpetúa los errores del pasado. Si por cada euro que se invierte en nuevos algoritmos se invirtiera otro en regulación, habría más razones para ser optimistas...

Former Google engineer Tim Libert is releasing a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”

'AI thrives when our need for originality is low and our demand for mediocrity is high,' writes Ray Nayler.

Data brokers claim that deidentified data on millions of Americans is risk-free. Lawmakers need to know that “anonymity” is an abstraction.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Supercomputing Center has developed tools to reduce data center energy use by power-capping hardware and by improving the efficiency with which models are trained — in some...

As the European Union gears up to enforce a major reboot of its digital rulebook in a matter of months, a new dedicated research unit is being spun up to support oversight of large platforms under...

If Britain were to host data acquired in unlawful ways, the financial and reputational damage would be huge, says Carissa Véliz, author of Privacy is Power

Too often, a facial-recognition search represents virtually the entirety of a police investigation.

Right now there’s less reason than ever to believe the battle for data privacy is lost

More authors are going after AI companies.

The president of the not-for-profit messaging app on how she believes existential warnings about AI allow big tech to entrench their power, and why the online safety bill may be unworkable

Digital nudges can encourage reactive thinking and limit employees’ ethical thinking.

Incoming guidance by an expert steering body on European Union data protection law could have major implications for Meta's advertising business model.

A Science Advances analysis explored whether respondents could tell the difference between tweets generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 and others by humans.

Clearview AI has been used by the police nearly a million times in the US, it tells the BBC.

Ruhi Khan, ESRC researcher at the LSE, argues that as companies increasingly use artificial intelligence and people gravitate towards relying on large language model chatbots like ChatGPT for ubiqu…

The body that unites Europe's national privacy watchdogs said on Thursday it had set up a task force on ChatGPT, a potentially important first step toward a common policy on setting privacy rules on...

Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions

A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefit...

Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

Plus: Apple patches newly discovered flaws exploited by NSO Group spyware, North Korean hackers target security researchers, and more.

When everything we do online is data to be harvested, resignation is easy. But there’s a better way to think about digital privacy.

The Information Commissioner’s Office said it fined Clearview AI for failing to inform British residents that it was collecting billions of photos from sites including Facebook, Instagram and...

The risks inherent in the technology, plus the speed of its take-up, demonstrate why it’s so vital that we keep track of it, writes the Guardian’s head of editorial innovation, Chris Moran