Artificial intelligence
AI giants tap into the social media playbook: self-regulation
The AI industry is taking a page from social media companies with its pitch to make sure technology remains safe: self-regulation.
Despite online claims, analysts see no signs of foreign manipulation in AI blowback
A sudden surge in AI safety discourse has fueled accusations of a coordinated “psyop.” Researchers say those claims are unsubstantiated.
Democratic group aims to recruit AI scientists who quit to run for office
314 Action Fund is launching a campaign to recruit potential electoral candidates who have AI experience.
Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans
Cybersecurity experts told NBC News they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed.
Inside the AI risk summit uniting Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon and Hollywood
The event featured an unlikely mix of top speakers, including Bernie Sanders, Steve Bannon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ashley Judd.
U.S. and China face grave AI risks but mutual distrust stalls cooperation
The United States and China are both gripped by safety fears as they reckon with their rapid advances in AI, but intensifying competition and deep mutual distrust could derail the kind of cooperation experts say is vital to head off the strategically vital technology’s greatest dangers.
AI CEOs want to ‘pace’ the industry. That may not mean slowing down.
Four rival AI leaders are in agreement: the industry needs to “pace the frontier.”
Trump calls Nvidia CEO to talk AI — and gets put on speakerphone in all-hands meeting
President Donald Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a company all-hands meeting and gave another full-throated defense of artificial intelligence after Huang put the call on speakerphone.
China dismisses AI slowdown calls and blasts ‘fearmongering’ from U.S. tech leaders
Urgent calls for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence may cite a grave threat to humanity, but China says the warnings are instead aimed at slowing its progress as America’s rival superpower.
Anthropic CEO calls for slowing the AI race as safety warnings mount
The CEO of one of the world’s leading AI companies is calling for the industry to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI systems, continuing the escalation of warnings that have emerged in recent days from researchers working on the technology.