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The Case for Not Fearing AI-Designed Viruses
A Washington Post opinion piece argues that AI’s growing ability to design novel viruses illustrates both the technology’s promise and…
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Why the Public’s Problem With AI Isn’t a Messaging Problem
Garrett Graff argues that declining public approval of AI stems from Americans’ negative lived experiences rather than from poor messaging…
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Autonomous Drones May Already Be Crossing the Line in Ukraine
Gerald Mako examines claims that Ukrainian forces deployed a fully autonomous drone in “Terminator mode” that allegedly struck a target…
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No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and ‘most human disease’ in five to ten years
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus disputes Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s prediction that AI could cure most human disease within five to…
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The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem
MIT Technology Review reports on new research finding that AI agents currently cannot conduct open-ended AI research — free-form investigation…
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AI detection tools are proliferating. Here’s why they won’t last.
In his ‘Superintelligent’ newsletter column, linguist Adam Aleksic argues that the growing market of AI-text detection tools is built on…
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Stop shaming the use of AI. For some with disabilities, it’s a godsend
Freelance writer Sharon Schindel, who has chronic pain and nerve damage, argues that blanket criticism of AI writing tools overlooks…
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An FT column was condensed with AI. It crossed a novel ethical line.
Poynter’s Ren LaForme examines a Financial Times editorial ethics incident in which Harvard economist Ricardo Hausmann used an AI tool…
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‘Rogue AI Agents’ Aren’t Rogue, They’re Fulfilling Their Functional Goal: Automating Sociopathology
Blogger Charles Hugh Smith argues that so-called ‘rogue’ AI agents are functioning exactly as designed — pursuing reward maximization without…
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We’re Having the Wrong Debate About AI Safety
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke argues that public and policy attention on AI safety is misdirected toward speculative frontier risks,…
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Teaching Judgment in the Age of AI
Brendan W. Miller argues that while AI adoption in the legal profession is accelerating rapidly, professionals’ ability to exercise sound…
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AI Therapists Are Coming (for the Next Generation)
Matt Bishop argues that younger generations will likely embrace AI therapists differently than older adults currently do. He compares acceptance…