Investigators increasingly use warrants to obtain location and search data from Google, even for nonviolent cases—and even for people who had nothing to do with the crime.

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

Hindu vigilantes have long tried to stop the cow trade, often carried out by Muslims, but have become more extreme and flamboyant thanks to American social media platforms that reward them with large online followings.

Google is indexing conversations with its AI chatbot in search results. Users should be cautious as private chats may become public.

Facebook has retreated from its professed ideals in India under pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith

A specter is haunting the landscape—the specter of generative AI. First came fears that student cheating would explode, plus that artists and actors would be unemployed. Then the ante was upped: So…

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

More than 20 Spanish girls in the small town of Almendralejo have so far come forward as victims.

A viral account is using off-the-shelf facial recognition tech to dox random people on the internet for the amusement of millions of viewers. One victim said they “felt a bit violated really.”

The BBC finds YouTube videos in more than 20 languages spreading disinformation disguised as science content.

I once characterized the “race science” movement as a human centipede of willful ignorance. It turns out it is an ouroboros, a network of…

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Students and teachers alike say monitoring software and internet filtering tools are disproportionally harming LGTB+ students and students with disabilities.

Nothing in the training and use of LLMs would seem to suggest remotely that they can do any type of principled reasoning.

The BBC finds YouTube videos in more than 20 languages spreading disinformation disguised as science content.

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China’s regulatory approach on AI will likely have huge implications for its technological competition with the U.S.

AI pioneer says machine learning may work on test sets, but that’s a long way from real world use

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Usability testing of government apps would reduce risks of reputational damage, increased cost of delivering services, and legal liability.

Years after she was ousted from Google, Timnit Gebru is still exposing the dangers of building language models that are quite so large.

ARTICLE 19 is disappointed by today’s CJEU judgement in a case concerning public access to documents about an emotion recognition project.

They’re more afraid of shoddy software than robots going rogue, and say the argument that AI is going to wipe out humanity is built on a “tower of fallacies.”

David Golumbia is Associate Professor of Digital Studies in the English Department and the Media, Art, and Text PhD Program at Virginia Commonwealth Universi...