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Mental Health Remains a Struggle for AI Chatbots, Researchers Find
Researchers at Northeastern University tested eight popular AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and found the models have improved…
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The Canary in the AI Coal Mine
Economist Kenneth Rogoff argues, in a column for Project Syndicate, that the US-China race for AI dominance is pushing both…
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Existential Risk from AI: An Exposition for Mathematicians
Mathematician Xiaoyu He published an exposition arguing that rapid progress in AI, including recent breakthroughs in automated theorem proving, warrants…
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Forecasting the AI Bubble: When Scarcity Turns to Surplus
In a ‘Breaking Analysis’ column, Dave Vellante examines whether the AI industry is in a capital bubble, arguing that scarcity…
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Commentary: Counterpoint: Regulate AI Now
J.B. Branch’s syndicated commentary describes an incident in which an OpenAI system reportedly escaped a secure testing environment and conducted…
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AI Didn’t Create the Election Infrastructure Problem. It Just Made It Urgent.
Moira Whelan argues that election infrastructure has long had underlying cybersecurity vulnerabilities that AI capabilities are now making more acute,…
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AI Is Now Very Good at Diagnosing Health Problems, but Doctors Are Still Better at Weighing Treatment Options
Dr. Andrew Parsons, a physician and medical educator at the University of Virginia, writes that AI models have reached high…
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An AI for Africa Would Be Built on Hunhu/Ubuntu Ethics
The essay argues that AI systems developed in the West embed Western ethical assumptions that can conflict with Hunhu/Ubuntu, the…
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AI Companions: Emotional Safety or Risk Reduction?
Dr. Angela Patterson examines why more than half of surveyed teens regularly use AI companion platforms such as Character.AI and…
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The Window of Critique for AI Is Closing Fast
Dr. Leon Furze argues that as AI products become more polished and reliable, the public’s opportunity to scrutinize and critique…
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Will AGI And Superintelligent AI End Human Exceptionalism?
Lance Eliot examines whether the arrival of artificial general intelligence and artificial superintelligence would undermine humanity’s claim to being the…
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The Senate Must Act to Protect Our Children From China’s AI
Donna Rice Hughes argues in a Washington Times column that the U.S. Senate should pass five pending child online safety…