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Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.

Generative AI systems act like "stochastic parrots," using statistical models to guess word orders and pixel placements. That's incompatible with a free press that commands its own words.

Prompt-based image generators seem unhackable. But a committed glitch artist can still instigate interventions.

The much-hyped AI tools of the future are being built by a globally dispersed army of data workers.

Are algorithms biased? Rodrigo Ochigame traces newfound interest in this question back to the early attempts to formalize notions of fair decision making.

A new index rates the transparency of 10 foundation model companies and finds them lacking.

We must resist normalizing opacity in the design of generative AI systems, says Eryk Salvaggio.

Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.

He insists the artificial intelligence he is creating could destroy civilization even as he hastens its advancement. Do we know enough about him?

Why robots defy our existing moral and legal categories and how to revolutionize the way we think about them.Robots are a curious sort of thing. On the one h...

pWe are at the beginning of an artificial intelligence revolution that has the potential to shift our perspectives on several fronts, including on the moral worth of artificially intelligent objects. Such shifts might be especially poignant when considering research aiming to create AI systems empathetic to human needs for, among other contexts, application in healthcare. This comic uses the ancient Japanese folklore of Tsukumogami, tools that have acquired souls, to invite readers to meditate on their relationship between the inanimate object and the animate subject./p

With the comprehensive application of Artificial Intelligence into the creation and post production of images, it seems questionable if the resulting visualisations can still be considered ‘photographs’ in a classical sense – drawing with light....

It’s no accident — the intertwining of religion and technology is centuries old.

“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. “Dr. Joy Buolamwini...

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Can States Learn to Govern Artificial Intelligence—Before It’s Too Late?

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The debate over whether LaMDA is sentient or not overlooks important issues that will frame debates about intelligence, sentience, language and human-AI interaction in the coming years.