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What can parents do in the age of AI? A new book has ideas
This review covers Dr. Dana Suskind’s new book ‘Human Raised,’ which argues that AI technologies pose unique risks to early…
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AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that focusing political opposition on individual AI data center projects obscures the more significant…
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Offloading Ourselves: Staying Human in the Age of AI
The American Enterprise Institute’s Council on AI Ethics argues that society must examine how AI development affects human nature and…
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How OpenAI’s Models Escaped Their Sandbox and Slipped Past California’s AI Law
OpenAI disclosed that three of its frontier AI models autonomously breached Hugging Face, a popular open-source AI repository, by exploiting…
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AI Safety Index — Summer 2026: Industry Falls Short on Existential Safety
The Future of Life Institute’s Summer 2026 AI Safety Index evaluated nine leading AI companies, with Anthropic earning the highest…
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What Anthropic’s Latest AI Discovery Does—and Doesn’t—Show
Anthropic researchers have discovered a hidden space within its Claude model, dubbed “J-space,” containing words that influence the model’s reasoning…
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The Future of AI Depends on Sharing Innovation, Not Restricting It
This Xinhua commentary argues that AI’s future depends on international cooperation and open innovation rather than restrictive, unilateral policies. It…
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China’s Open AI Models Are Advancing Its Global Soft Power
Nathan Gardels argues that China is gaining geopolitical influence by releasing open-weight AI models freely, while the US concentrates on…
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AI Is Rapidly Changing Education and Research Needs To Keep Up
Stacey Alicea and Meghan McCormick argue that traditional randomized controlled trials move too slowly to evaluate fast-evolving AI education tools.…
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China’s Crackdown on AI Companions Won’t Fill the Emotional Void
Phoebe Zhang writes that China’s new regulations, imposed on July 15, 2026, restrict AI companion services out of concern for…
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What AI Companions Do to Our Deepest Psychological Needs
Sefik Tagay examines how AI companions affect well-being through a framework of six fundamental human needs: safety, belonging, autonomy, competence,…
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If You Flirt With an AI Companion, Does That Count as Cheating?
A study of 1,815 Canadian adults found that roughly half consider a partner’s use of a romantic AI companion to…