Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

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A look at how criminals are using unrestricted chatbots and how cyber defenders are fighting back.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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Early warning signs show AI is eating into the entry-level job market — a potential harbinger of things to come.
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If AI is modeled only on human intelligence, will it inherit only human ways of seeing the world?
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In this excerpt from "Governing Babel," John Wihbey explores how AI is reshaping online moderation by offering tools that can help human moderators, but also raises the risk of disinformation and digital chaos.
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The incredible story of how the US Army began the march toward generative AI in 1943 — and what it means for your business today.
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A conversation with Dr. Susan Schneider on the AI risks we’re not talking about and why the fixation on AGI is misplaced.
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Brian Gumbel — President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr — explores the cutting edge of real-time information analysis.
Book cover of "The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything" by James Barrat, featuring a robot hand holding a globe, with the text "an excerpt from" reflecting the rise of AI.
The predictions of evolutionary theorists and current advances in “multimodal AI” offer strong clues to the future of employment.
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The overlooked reason why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon.
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Are you ready for the “cybernetic corporation”? Amir Husain “profiles” the hottest company of 2035 — and makes a telling comparison with Nvidia.
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Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.
John Templeton Foundation
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Author and geopolitical strategist Paulo Cardoso do Amaral urges us to ask: Will we shape AI with wisdom, or will AI reshape us with strategy?
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The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.