Society

Distributing AGI’s wealth worldwide is a very tricky problem

AGI could exacerbate global inequality. Avoiding that is a big policy challenge.

Sep 8 • Jacob Schaal

AI is a worryingly-good persuader. But don’t panic, yet

AI systems are able to persuade people, but turning that ability into meaningful real-world influence may be harder

Sep 1 • Felix M. Simon

We’re sleepwalking into an AI surveillance dystopia

The technology needed for industrial-scale observation exists — and is already in widespread use

Aug 25 • James Ball

The data center is a symbol

And for now, probably a pretty good one

Aug 21 • Dan Kagan-Kans

The Jan 6 organizer getting conservatives riled up about AI

Amy Kremer’s resume makes her loyalty to Trump impossible to question. Humans First is banking that will help mobilize the right

Aug 13 • Veronica Irwin

Plz Don’t Kill Us: Inside AI safety’s influencer bootcamp

Can TikTokers make existential risk mainstream?

Aug 4 • Celia Ford

Child safety vs privacy: AI’s age verification dilemma

There’s good reason to limit how children use chatbots. But the trade-offs might be too costly

Jul 30 • Veronica Irwin

Who should be responsible for OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face?

Opinion: Frontier AI companies need liability rules akin to keepers of wild animals, argues Gabriel Weil of the University of Houston and the Institute…

Jul 24

Hugging Face hosts nudification tools targeting a former Trump cabinet official and other senior US political figures

The tools are explicitly intended for generating deepfake nudes of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress and a top American…

Jun 25 • Shakeel Hashim

What the Pope got wrong

For all the good in Pope Leo’s AI encyclical, it failed to grapple with the biggest questions

May 27 • Shakeel Hashim

The new rules for killing a data center

A retired tech exec beat Microsoft in his Wisconsin village. Now he's teaching the rest of America how to do the same

May 21

The AI safety movement needs normies

A broader base may be the only way for the AI safety field to get what it wants

Apr 27 • Celia Ford

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