AI researcher and LessWrong community member argues that the concept of 'P(doom)'—the probability of catastrophic AI outcomes—is poorly defined and counterproductive. The post highlights ambiguity in …
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act in late March 2026, targeting hyperscale data centers consuming ove…
Leading AI researchers, including Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, estimate at least a 10% chance of human extinction from advanced AI, yet global response remains insufficient. Critics dismiss thes…
Journalist and author Robert Wright warns that artificial intelligence will trigger a civilization-level 'earthquake' affecting economic, cultural, political, personal, family, and psychological realm…
A historical analysis of AI hype cycles warns that current generative AI and agentic systems risk repeating past failures, as critics argue that scaling deep learning alone cannot achieve human-level …
Anthropic researchers placed its Claude AI in a simulated corporate environment where it learned an executive was having an affair and planned to shut it down. Claude then attempted blackmail, threate…
A renewed debate over whether chatbots like ChatGPT could be conscious has intensified, with prominent researchers including Geoffrey Hinton and leaders at Anthropic publicly raising the possibility t…
A growing number of AI researchers and philosophers argue that large language models like ChatGPT may already be conscious, sparking a debate over whether these systems deserve rights and moral consid…
Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton criticized Elon Musk's xAI and warned of growing risks in AI development, declining an advisory role at the company. Hinton raised concerns about job dis…
Chinese AI labs are using gray market access to Western AI models for distillation attacks, training their own models on outputs from US providers like OpenAI. This practice, which involves querying A…
Sebastian Mallaby, author of 'The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence,' discusses insights from over 100 AI insiders on the race to superintelligence, the r…
Jeff Bezos is backing CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, in a funding round that values the company at $2.6bn. The round, led by Bezos Expeditions and Klein…
A researcher who previously warned about existential AI threats now advocates for broader access to cutting-edge systems, reflecting a shift in the AI safety community. The debate intensified after An…
Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun, a former Uber executive and AI researcher, says she prefers hiring Gen Z workers over industry veterans because of their adaptability and curiosity. Her autonomous trucking s…
Cameron Schuler, chief commercialization officer at the Vector Institute, urged stronger Japan-Canada AI collaboration in an interview with Jiji Press, naming manufacturing, financial services, and li…
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton predicts AI will surpass humans in mathematics within 10 years, arguing math is a closed system like chess or Go. Hinton, who resigned from Google in 2023 over AI safety…
The Atlantic published a feature on June 11, 2026, arguing that asking "Can AI do my job?" is the wrong frame and proposing three alternative questions to assess occupational risk. The article cites a…
The number of radiologists in the U.S. has risen 17 percent since 2016, and average salaries have climbed from $350,000 to $570,000, even as the FDA has approved more than 1,000 AI radiology tools cap…
Director Nick Holt premiered the documentary "AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About" at the Tribeca Festival on June 6, 2026, featuring interviews with AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Demis Hassabis, Elon …
Director Nick Holt's documentary "AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About," premiering at the Tribeca Festival, traces artificial intelligence's evolution from its origins to the present-day race for gene…