Artificial Intelligence

Designing machines to think like humans provides insight into intelligence itself

The Herculaneum scrolls, charred and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, were unreadable—until now

Large language models trained on religious texts claim to offer spiritual insights on demand. What could go wrong?

It’s vital to “keep humans in the loop” to avoid humanizing machine-learning models in research

The new nonprofit Fairly Trained certifies that artificial intelligence models license copyrighted data—which often isn’t the case

A machine-learning tool that transforms text prompts into detailed video has generated excitement—and skepticism

The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns

Digital cloaking tools such as Nightshade and Glaze help artists take back control from generative AI—but they’re no forever fix

AI-generated disinformation will target voters on a near-daily basis in more than 50 countries, according to a new analysis

In January Taylor Swift became the latest high-profile target of nonconsensual deepfake images. It’s time for regulations that ban this kind of abusive AI content, cyberadvocates say

A leaked draft of the European Union’s upcoming AI Act has experts discussing where the regulations may fall short

When asked, ChatGPT declared that its training material—the language we humans use every day—was to blame for potential bias in stories it generated