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It’s All Fun and Games Until You Give AI Your Credit Card
19+ hour ago (100+ words) The Atlantic AI personal assistants are now acting on people’s behalf in the real world—and all sorts of strange things are going wrong. Read: Chatbait is taking over the internet A world full of agents seems at once busier…...
Anthropic Says ‘We Owe It to Humanity’ to Slow Down AI
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (30+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action. Sam Altman and Elon Musk responded with rare agreement to Dario Amodei’s call to action....
AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (268+ words) The technology is moving faster than elected officials can handle—and Anthropic’s CEO says the industry should slow down. Politicians have no shortage of ideas about how to rein in AI: a 100 percent federal tax rate on data-center incentives, a…...
The AI Pandemic Isn’t On Its Way
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (146+ words) A clear check on AI-made viruses is the limit of existing knowledge about what makes viruses dangerous. Yet plenty of others might be, thanks to evolution. Last month, a team of scientists published a high-profile paper describing how they’d taught…...
Okay, Sure, a Folding iPhone
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (15+ words) The Atlantic Apple needs to learn to take risks again....
Let the Robots Try Medicine
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (51+ words) The Atlantic It’s time for human doctors to get serious about AI. Today need not be any different. Doctors have been presented with a powerful tool that has the potential to improve care for millions of people. It’s their duty…...
This Tiny E-Reader Is the Single Best Piece of Technology in Years
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (96+ words) theatlantic.com The $70 Xteink X3 puts Silicon Valley to shame. No matter how you read it, The Power Broker is a serious undertaking. The paperback weighs as much as a brick; to avoid lugging around all 1,344 pages, people have cut it…...
Stop Calling AI Companies ‘Labs’
1+ week, 2+ day ago (155+ words) Even so, Anthropic has a habit of landing on ambiguity about the fallout of its technology. In its education report, for instance, Anthropic, the entity best equipped to observe whether students are... The term lends an air of scientific rigor…...
Am I Talking to You, or ChatGPT?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (115+ words) It’s no longer strange to think that AI might be everywhere, edging out all forms of human interaction: bots talking to bots, all the way down. Every week we seem to take another step in that... The “Dead Internet” theory…...
The AI Questions Marketing Leaders Need to Answer Now
2+ week, 18+ hour ago (481+ words) Before a buyer gets to your site, an answer engine or agent may already have researched, compared, and narrowed the field. This report asks five questions and names five decisions that determine whether your brand makes that cut, with a…...