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AI Security

A 2018 Warning About AI and Security That Reads Like Today's News

A landmark report by 26 researchers mapped out how AI could be turned against us, across cyberattacks, physical threats, and political manipulation. Six years later, almost every warning has aged badly in the wrong direction.

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Science & Space

Satellites and AI are watching Earth around the clock. Here's what that means for all of us.

A new OECD report warns that sharper satellite cameras combined with artificial intelligence bring real benefits for disaster response and security, but also fresh risks around privacy and fake imagery.

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Policy

AI attack ads are flooding Australian social media before Victoria's election. Nobody knows who paid for them.

Alarming videos showing machete robberies and roadside births are targeting Victorian voters online. The ads outspend the major parties on digital platforms, and their true funders are almost impossible to trace.

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Everyday AI

AI Takes a 1956 Time Trip While a Comedian's Far-Right Rally Skit Gets a Second Life in the Daily Mail

The Guardian's Weekly Beast traces how a comedian's offensive Welcome to Country parody travelled from a fringe rally to a mainstream tabloid, and what that journey reveals about how outrage gets laundered into news.

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AI Security

OpenAI Bans Russian Accounts That Used ChatGPT to Build a Fake Academic Institution

A covert influence operation used OpenAI's chatbot to write social media posts, copy real research papers, and construct a phoney think-tank designed to make pro-Russia narratives look credible.

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AI Security

A fake US think tank flooded AI chatbots with half a million words of pro-Israel talking points

A website posing as a research institute published 124 reports in nine days, using a platform built to make AI chatbots treat its content as credible source material.

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AI Security

AI-Generated Far-Right Memes Are Flooding Facebook. Here Is How the Machine Works.

Automated accounts are mass-producing politically charged images and text with AI tools, then pushing them through Facebook at scale. A Guardian cartoonist's satirical take on the trend points to a problem that's only getting cheaper to run.

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Policy

AI Could Cure Cancer or Cement Autocracy. Which Way It Goes Is Up to Us

Author and academic Katherine Rundell argues that artificial intelligence carries two entirely opposite futures inside it, and that education is the place where that choice gets made.

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Policy

The EU Now Requires Labels on AI-Generated Images, Audio and Text

A new European Union rule that took effect this week means realistic-looking content made by artificial intelligence must be clearly marked as such, affecting everything from political attack videos to AI-written news articles.

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