Category: artificial intelligence (AI)

The Dark Side of AI: 100,000 ChatGPT Accounts Stolen and Traded

Criminals are targeting users of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT, stealing their accounts and trading them on illegal online criminal marketplaces—with the threat having already affected more than 100,000 individuals worldwide. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity firm, has identified 101,134 devices infected with information-stealing malware that contained saved ChatGPT credentials, according to a June 20…


​​How Should We Humans Cope With AI?

Commentary Artificial intelligence (AI) keeps surging to the fore, commanding more and more attention. I wouldn’t be surprised if, by year-end (if not already), it’s one of the 10 most common topics covered by the media. The most elementary question some people ask about AI is, is AI good? Perhaps here we should remember Shakespeare’s…


AI Is a High and Important Priority: Australian Financial Market Regulator

Australia’s corporate regulator has placed at the top of its agenda the regulation of artificial intelligence development in the financial markets amid the “new and different ” risks attached to the quickly evolving technology, partly driven by the fear of being “left behind”. In a recent speech at a financial markets forum, Australian Securities and…


AI Poses Threat to Democratic Order: President of Germany

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned about artificial intelligence turning into a threat to democracy, calling for better digital literacy among the public to be able to identify AI-manipulated content. “Neither the AI nor the companies operating it are democratically elected,” Steinmeier said while delivering his remarks during a recent event in Berlin, according to…


AI for the Win: A Dissenting Perspective

Commentary The explosive adoption of the AI language model ChatGPT has been accompanied by a proportionate increase in alarmist assessments of the dangers of artificial intelligence. The alarm is sounding across the political spectrum, from the New York Times to Steve Bannon’s War Room, with concerns ranging from widespread job losses, to more effective disinformation…


AI Expert Says Reinforcement Learning is ‘Fantastically Bad Idea’

An expert in artificial intelligence has warned against “ploughing ahead” with certain types of AI which could have potentially disastrous consequences for the human race. Michael Cohen, a doctoral candidate in Engineering Science at Oxford University, said his fears were shared by Geoff Hinton, a Canadian professor often described as the “godfather of AI,” and…


PREMIERE – Artificial Intelligence: Separating Fact From Fiction

On this episode of International Reporters Roundtable we explore artificial intelligence. What exactly is it? Science fiction writers knew it was coming, they’ve been describing it for years. Although they’ve been divided over whether it’s a blessing or a curse; helpful assistant or humankind’s doom. Now suddenly, it’s in our hands. Chat-GPT, the first open…


PREMIERE – Artificial Intelligence: Who Is Really In Control

On this episode of International Reporters Roundtable we explore artificial intelligence. What exactly is it? Science fiction writers knew it was coming, they’ve been describing it for years. Although they’ve been divided over whether it’s a blessing or a curse; helpful assistant or humankind’s doom. Now suddenly, it’s in our hands. Chat-GPT, the first open…


Artificial Intelligence: Who Is Really In Control

On this episode of International Reporters Roundtable we explore artificial intelligence. What exactly is it? Science fiction writers knew it was coming, they’ve been describing it for years. Although they’ve been divided over whether it’s a blessing or a curse; helpful assistant or humankind’s doom. Now suddenly, it’s in our hands. Chat-GPT, the first open…


Newly Developed Humanoid Robot Warns About AI Creating ‘Oppressive Society’

During the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation held in London from May 29 to June 2, UK-based company Engineered Arts introduced a humanoid robot, Ameca, that can interact like a person with realistic facial movements. Unlike ChatGPT, which is an online chat service, Ameca’s humanoid body allows it to interact with people using…