Posted on

The Robots We Were Afraid of Are Already Here

Digit drew a crowd, even here, in a convention center full of robot aficionados.A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with […]




Posted on

An Internet Veteran’s Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology

How could they protect themselves from A.I.?That was the question that Mike Masnick found himself fielding this summer in a WhatsApp chat with about 100 directors, actors and screenwriters. The […]




Posted on

Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart

A one-armed robot stood in front of a table. On the table sat three plastic figurines: a lion, a whale and a dinosaur.An engineer gave the robot an instruction: “Pick […]




Posted on

Researchers Poke Holes in Safety Controls of ChatGPT and Other Chatbots

When artificial intelligence companies build online chatbots, like ChatGPT, Claude and Google Bard, they spend months adding guardrails that are supposed to prevent their systems from generating hate speech, disinformation […]




Posted on

How Do the White House’s A.I. Commitments Stack Up?

This week, the White House announced that it had secured “voluntary commitments” from seven leading A.I. companies to manage the risks posed by artificial intelligence.Getting the companies — Amazon, Anthropic, […]




Posted on

Meta, Google and A.I. Firms Agree to Safety Measures in Biden Meeting

Seven leading A.I. companies in the United States have agreed to voluntary safeguards on the technology’s development, the White House announced on Friday, pledging to manage the risks of the […]




Posted on

A.I. Regulation Is in Its ‘Early Days’

Regulating artificial intelligence has been a hot topic in Washington in recent months, with lawmakers holding hearings and news conferences and the White House announcing voluntary A.I. safety commitments by […]