The Biden administration is soliciting public input on measures to regulate artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT as questions mount about the fast-moving technology’s impact on national security and education. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a Commerce Department agency that advises the White House on telecommunications and information policy, said it will spend…
US Exploring Rules to Regulate AI Tools Like ChatGPT
New AI Bot ‘ChaosGPT’ Aims to Destroy Humanity and Establish Global Dominance
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…
ChatGPT Is a Precursor to ‘AI Singularity,’ Experts Fear
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…
How AI Can Track, Manipulate Voters
How well do artificial intelligence (AI) programs know us humans? In most cases, it turns out quite well and, in some ways better than we know ourselves. A study by AI experts at Brigham Young University, titled “Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples,” found that predictive AI programs exhibited a…
More Dangerous: Humans or AI?
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 End of Education as We Know It? (Part 2 of 2)
The new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot known as ChatGPT is poised to have an outsized effect on the educational landscape, for better or for worse. Which outcome it will lead to is largely in the hands of parents, educators, and—ultimately—our children, and how they respond to it. To ignore it is to do so at…
Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Launches Investigation Into Company Behind ChatGPT
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…
Italy Bans ChatGPT Over Privacy and Age Verification Issues
Italy temporarily stopped ChatGPT from operating in the country on Friday over unlawful data collection and problems in its age verification system. It launched a legal inquiry into the case. The ban came from Italy’s Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data agency (GPDP), naming Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the developer and managing company of the artificial…
50,000 Signed Letter Calling for AI Advancement Pause, Nonprofit Says
A recent open letter calling for a pause on artificial intelligence advancement has been signed by more than 50,000 people, including over 1,800 CEOs and over 1,500 professors, according to the nonprofit that issued it. “The reaction has been intense,” said the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a nonprofit seeking to mitigate large-scale technology risks,…
‘There’s the Possibility That AIs Will Run Out of Control’: Bill Gates
Bill Gates recently praised the evolution of artificial intelligence, his relationship with OpenAI, and gave a short warning on the situation being portrayed differently by other subject experts, including Elon Musk. The Microsoft co-founder started out his March 21 GatesNotes post on AI in a hopeful tone: “The development of AI is as fundamental as…
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