The U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law holds a hearing on “Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence” at 10 a.m. ET on May 16. Samuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI: Christina Montgomery, chief privacy and trust officer of IBM; and Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at New York University will testify. …

The head of the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT will testify before Congress as lawmakers call for new rules to guide the rapid development of AI technology. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to speak at a Senate hearing Tuesday. His San Francisco-based startup rocketed to public attention after its release late last year…

As research laboratory OpenAI drives artificial intelligence (AI) forward with ChatGPT, AI-related issues such as leaks and privacy concerns have surfaced, further driving unease over what the technology can do. Due to such concerns related to ChatGPT, the Italian Data Protection Authority officially suspended the use of the AI chatbot in Italy on March 31, making…

Tech tycoon Elon Musk is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI)—specifically, its potential for “civilizational destruction.” In an April 14 preview of his interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, Musk stresses that the ramifications of such technology could be disastrous for humanity. “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design…

Tech tycoon Elon Musk is sounding the alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI)—specifically, its potential for “civilizational destruction.” In an April 14 preview of his interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, Musk stresses that the ramifications of such technology could be disastrous for humanity. “AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design…

A new artificial intelligence bot aims to destroy humanity and establish global dominance, according to a recent report. An experimental AI bot was tasked by its programmer with destroying humanity and gaining global dominance, but its eventual response unsettled observers, according to Fox News. ChaosGPT, which has surfaced on Twitter, is based on a modified version of…

News Analysis The emergence of ChatGPT has transformed how people think about artificial intelligence (AI), offering a chat room experience unlike anything the world has ever seen. Within just two months of its unveiling, it has gained over 100 million users and 1 billion visits per month. The interactive AI chatbot has fueled AI’s widespread…

Commentary I was on an Australian TV program last week when the host, a respected and long-serving figure of the conservative media, decided to allow ChatGPT (an AI text generator) to draft the next segment about itself. As he was reading the AI-generated script from the prompter, it sounded perfectly reasonable—albeit hollow and devoid of…

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) says it has launched an investigation into OpenAI, the U.S.-based company that created the popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT. “AI technology and its effects on privacy is a priority for my Office,” Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in an April 4 release. “We need to keep up…

ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI, was taken offline for emergency maintenance on March 20 due to a bug in an open-source library that triggered a data breach. At the time, many ChatGPT users reported that they could see titles from other active user’s chat history. Some also reported seeing in their own…