AI & Society

Recent cyber attacks reflect what the technology was trained to do but safeguards are falling short

Meta may be an example of one of the most dangerous types of A.I. companies — one that believes it’s building tools, when it’s actually building superintelligence. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss it on the “Hard Fork” podcast.

The “Hard Fork” co-host Casey Newton says Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most competitive people in the world. Zuckerberg’s reorganization of A.I. efforts at Meta, while controversial, already show promise.

In contrast to A.I. “doomerism,” the “Hard Fork” podcast hosts Casey Newton and Kevin Roose discuss positive use cases for A.I.

Investors in gigawatt-scale campuses face billions in underinsured risks as insurers balk at cost of full coverage

Three former SpaceX engineers have switched their attention from making rocket engines to manufacturing steel parts by using AI-driven software and robots. Their immediate goal involves establishing a prototype factory that can automate most of the steel fabrication process for crucial infrastructure components by 2027. The startup, called 1872, officially launched on July 22 with

Readers respond to the Kennedy Center Board’s vote to inscribe President Trump’s name on the building. Also, winning the A.I. race; a slogan for Democrats.

For the past year or so, booksellers have suspected that AI firms are buying up huge lots of rare books, then destroying them after scanning them to train AI. But this was hard to prove until now, as 404 Media reports that an Airtag hidden in a rare book shows that at least one tech

The data center, one of the world’s largest, could cost as much as $500 billion and will be leased by OpenAI.

Spotify, LinkedIn and others are trying to dig out of a digital sewage heap full of low-quality content made with artificial intelligence.