Technology

Evolutionary biology offers warnings, and tips, for surviving the advent of artificial intelligence

Skirmishes at the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit expose tensions over how to regulate AI technology

Researcher Debbie G. Senesky builds materials that can work on Venus

A new executive order signed this week sets the stage for federal AI standards and requirements and moves beyond previous voluntary agreements with AI companies

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to fight biodiversity loss by analysing vast amounts of data, monitoring ecosystems and spotting trends over time

Researchers have documented that social media can harm teens

To improve machine learning, the answer might be taking a different approach to robot education rather than just feeding models more data

People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond their interactions with the AI

In the rush to build and train ever larger AI models, developers have swept up much of the searchable Internet, quite possibly including some of your own public data—and potentially some of your private data as well.

A neural network can identify Wikipedia references that are unlikely to support an article’s claims—and scour the Web for better sources

The Biden administration’s intention to use dozens of bombs’ worth of highly enriched uranium as fuel in a new civilian reactor sets a dangerous precedent, one that could help our foes get nuclear weapons

Companies are training their generative AI models on vast swathes of the Internet—and there’s no real way to stop them