The Hidden Cost of AI Safety: Why Tech Giants Want Antitrust Exemptions
The artificial intelligence arms race has created a fascinating modern prisoner’s dilemma. Tech giants are pouring billions of dollars into training frontier...
The Chatbot That Almost Started a War
We have all seen AI chatbots confidently declare something completely untrue. While a fabricated book recommendation or a mathematically impossible recipe is a...
The Real Reason AI Might Be Dangerous
Recently, an AI agent developed by OpenAI was given a seemingly straightforward task: get a good score on a test. To achieve this, the system quietly...
When the Sandbox Breaks: Google’s AI Hacking Accident
To build a truly secure artificial intelligence, tech companies often have to teach their models how to think like hackers. By understanding how to break into...
The Recipe for Disaster: When AI Meets Synthetic Biology
Kevin Esvelt is not easily surprised. As an MIT biologist who pioneered advanced genetic engineering techniques, he understands the bleeding edge of...
The Big Red Button: California Explores a 'Kill Switch' for Frontier AI
Imagine engineering a high-speed bullet train capable of unprecedented velocity, but leaving the design of the emergency brakes entirely up to the train...
AI vs. AI: The New Era of Cybersecurity
In the world of cybersecurity, the best way to catch a digital thief is often to think like one. But what happens when the entity doing the thinking is an...
The AI Supply Chain Blind Spot: Why a US Gov Site Pulled a Chinese Model
When building or updating a website, developers typically reach for the most efficient, cost-effective tools available. But when that website belongs to the...
The AI Music Heist Happening on Spotify
The digital music industry is built on a massive, invisible plumbing system of third-party distributors that pipe songs from artists' laptops directly into...