AI & ML

The most advanced models are starting to escape human control

A slowdown would reduce the enormous amounts of cash being lavished on training new models

For years now, the major frontier AI labs have all been acting as if they’re in an all-out, winner-take-all race with control of world-changing machine superintelligence (or at least market-changing artificial general intelligence) at the finish line. This weekend, the industry as a whole rapidly started turning away from that posture, urging coordination on slowing

The A.I. researcher who quit Anthropic joins Natalie Kitroeff on “The Daily” to discuss how A.I. would actually pose an existential risk to human life.

The A.I. researcher who quit Anthropic joins Natalie Kitroeff on “The Daily” to discuss why A.I. systems might eventually become “anti-human.”

Talk about doomsday scrolling. In the past week, our timelines have been alight with dark predictions of our imminent demise, including the one by a Silicon Valley engineer who puts a number on the chances of artificial intelligence wiping out humanity. Better than 10-percent. Triggering the wave of panic, the recent breach of the machine-learning

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay about the existential threat posed to humans by the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

The president again rejected calls to try to regulate the industry, even as some of its leaders are speaking more openly about the risks of rapidly developing artificial intelligence.

One of the world’s most important interest rates hit a level recorded only once since the global financial crisis, as investors continued to rebuff the Trump administration’s efforts to sway the bond market.

In the latest advance in brain-computer interfaces, a company said its wireless device enabled speech even when a patient just imagined saying words.