Policy · Page 17
regulation, copyright fights, safety rules and the politics of AI
Three AI Pioneers Clash Over Open Models at Las Vegas Conference
Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng all agree that a handful of companies should not control AI. They disagree sharply on how to prevent it.
Twitch adds opt-out for Amazon AI training, but your data is on by default
A new privacy toggle lets streamers and viewers remove their videos, clips, and chats from Amazon's generative AI training pool. The catch: it starts switched on.
AI Companies May Be Destroying Rare Books to Train Their Models
Booksellers are raising the alarm that AI firms are buying up physical books, including rare and out-of-print copies, then shredding them to scan the pages cheaply and fast.
When an AI bot causes harm, who pays? Australian legal experts point to the humans who deployed it
Australia's first reported automated hacking incident has left lawyers wrestling with a gap in the law: if an AI agent goes wrong, the operator carries the bill, and possibly the developer too.
Pakistan's AI Judge Assistant Cleared 38 Extra Cases a Month Per Judge. Here's What Actually Worked.
A real-world trial gave 1,559 Pakistani judges a custom AI legal tool. Productivity rose 6.3%. The secret ingredient was not the software.
AI Was Going to Kill Millions of Jobs. A Year Later, the Numbers Tell a Different Story.
Tech leaders predicted mass white-collar unemployment by now. Economists say change is real but slower than the headlines suggested.
Should the US government take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic?
Both companies launched with promises to put humanity first. Now they're filing for stock-market listings at trillion-dollar valuations. Some researchers think Washington should step in before the wealth concentrates further.
House Democrats demand AI bosses testify under oath after hacking incidents tied to ChatGPT-maker and rivals
A group of lawmakers says Congress has 'completely failed' to act on AI risks. Now they want OpenAI, Anthropic and other top AI companies to answer questions on Capitol Hill after a run of cyber attacks carried out using their own models.
Tech Money Is Flowing Into US Midterms to Shape the AI Debate. Here Is What That Means for You.
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay calling for light-touch AI rules. Behind the scenes, Silicon Valley cash is quietly funding efforts to sway the very elections that will decide those rules.
Anthropic will watermark text from Claude to meet EU law
Every piece of text Claude generates will carry a hidden label so other systems can identify it as AI-made. The change is mandatory under European regulations that took effect this August.
Over 1,300 AI researchers say the industry's race to build more powerful systems is putting humanity at risk
A letter signed by scientists and engineers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind pushes back hard against the idea that AI insiders aren't worried. They are.
AI will do more to grow fossil fuel output than clean energy, new study warns
Researchers modelled 64 scenarios and found AI's productivity gains for oil, gas and coal outpace its renewable benefits, adding up to 1.8 gigatonnes of extra carbon pollution a year.
AI Was Supposed to Give Us a Four-Day Week. Inside Big Tech, Some Staff Are Logging 90 Hours Instead.
Google, OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic have all promised that AI will cut the working week. Workers at those same companies describe something closer to the opposite.
South Australia is launching a royal commission into AI, and it wants the tech giants in the room
Premier Peter Malinauskas is spending $3 million to figure out how artificial intelligence should be regulated before the technology outpaces the rules meant to govern it.
Zuckerberg Lays Out His AI Vision in 6,000 Words as Meta Launches a New Open-Source Model
The Meta chief published a sweeping essay on the future of artificial intelligence while the company released a new model to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. Here is what he actually said, and what it means.