AI & ML

On this episode of “The Call,” the host Natalie Kitroeff calls the technology correspondent Cecilia Kang as she reports from Washington, D.C., where Senator Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are calling for a “pro human” approach to containing A.I. amid growing security fears.

This isn’t the first time great scientific minds have warned of humanity’s destruction.

Jensen Huang has distanced himself from OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX’s efforts to slow research

The focus on dystopian scenarios is shifting public discourse from present-day dangers to hypothetical futures, some experts say.

At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.

The fuel poured from a storage tank at a large data center in Secaucus, N.J., into a tributary of the Hackensack River.

A viral selfie allegedly showing Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Narendra Modi and other leaders together at the BRICS summit in New Delhi is AI-generated. A SynthID watermark shows it was created using OpenAI tools, while several leaders pictured, including Brazil’s Lula and Turkey’s Erdogan, did not attend. Another AI selfie features former Iranian president Ebrahim

What began as a philosophical question — how dangerous might artificial intelligence become? — has hardened into increasingly entrenched rival camps.

Agility Robotics has debuted its first humanoid robot engineered to work safely near humans without risking harm to flesh-and-blood coworkers. Such safety features could unlock many more opportunities to use such robots inside warehouses and automotive factories—all without requiring isolated robot work cells and physical separation barriers. When Agility’s new Digit 5 robot detects a

Readers react to the Supreme Court ruling on mail-in ballots. Also: President Trump’s take on A.I.