Society

We’re getting the argument about AI's environmental impact all wrong

Individual ChatGPT queries are a rounding error — we need to think about the future

11 hrs ago •

AI’s child safety failures are becoming unignorable

Transformer Weekly: Sriram Krishnan on AGI, Meta’s talent drain, and Huawei’s chip production

Aug 29 •

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A roundup of AI psychosis stories

Concerning anecdotes keep piling up

Aug 21 •

Why is Hugging Face hosting tools to make deepfake porn of teenage celebrities?

The “ethical” AI company is hosting models designed to make nonconsensual sexual content, despite clear breaches of its policies

Jul 23 •

AI unemployment discourse is heating up

Transformer Weekly: Amodei’s job warning, US AISI rebranding, and a new DeepSeek model

May 30 •

Book Review: ‘The Optimist’ and ‘Empire of AI’

Two new books try to unmask Sam Altman and OpenAI, to varying degrees of success

May 19 •

The dangers of sycophancy

Transformer Weekly: GPT-4o rollback, changes to the diffusion rule, and the US fights the EU AI Act

May 2 •

The quest to build better defenses for AI risks

'Societal resilience' measures might offer some protection to the proliferation of dangerous AI capabilities

Mar 20 •

AI coding tools are quietly reshaping software development

They’re making an economic impact, despite not being very good yet

Feb 27 •

Exclusive: Americans overwhelmingly support AI safety mandates, new poll finds

The public would rather ban AI development than have no regulation at all

Jan 29 •

The media needs to start taking AGI seriously

An essay for Nieman Lab's 2025 Predictions series

Dec 30, 2024 •

Anthropic has hired an 'AI welfare' researcher

Kyle Fish joined the company last month to explore whether we might have moral obligations to AI systems

Oct 31, 2024 •

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