A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, with countries also misplaced and misshaped, according to The …
Starting Sunday, the European Union will require companies to label artificially generated images, audio, and text designed to look authentic, under new rules aimed at curbing deceptive content. The r…
The Guardian has issued an open call for Black Americans to share their experiences using artificial intelligence for health and spiritual guidance, including interactions with AI-generated social med…
Road-safety advocates warn that some Flock Safety automated license plate reader installations may pose a safety risk to drivers, according to The Guardian. A camera in Greene County, Ohio, sits on a …
Japan's government has developed an AI-powered matchmaking app, Tokyo Enmusubi, that has led to 265 marriages among its users. The app, which has 16,000 registered members from 36,000 applicants, was …
A UK Upper Tribunal judge accused the Home Office of potentially using AI-hallucinated evidence to deny an asylum claim from a Moroccan woman and her child fleeing forced marriage and violence. Judge …
Science fiction author and journalist Cory Doctorow warns that when the AI bubble bursts, executives who replaced staff with AI tools will face a 'really long time' to recover lost skills, and caution…
A plan to introduce a humanoid robot named Sally at Salamanca High School in New York has sparked protests from teachers and local residents, who call it inappropriate and culturally insensitive given…
Small businesses are using AI to augment workers rather than replace them, according to a report by The Guardian. A window and door company owner invested $10,000 in an AI application that listens to …
The Guardian reports that the AI jobs apocalypse is unlikely to arrive soon, citing Anthropic's analysis of AI's impact on employment. Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei had previously claimed AI could…
Plastic surgeons report a surge in patients requesting AI-generated versions of their own faces, which often feature flawless symmetry and proportions that are physically unattainable through surgery.…
OpenAI's announcement of GPT-2 in February 2019 as too risky to release was a strategic move to signal the model's power to investors, argues researcher John Thickstun in The Guardian. Thickstun criti…
The Vatican has obtained official certification from Proudly Human that Pope Leo XIV's 43,000-word encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* is entirely human-authored, after AI evangelists and detection tools…
The Guardian has called on UK residents living near AI data centres to share their experiences, as the number of large facilities reaches around 450 nationwide. Concerns include land use, pollution, n…
A commentary in Nature Ecology & Evolution warns that generative AI is polluting citizen-science records on platforms like iNaturalist, Macaulay Library, and WikiAves, with researchers finding several…
AI chatbots provide inaccurate, inconsistent and unreliable guidance to voters asking which party they should back, a study by the civil liberties group Liberties found, based on research during this …
The UK will not have enough water for future datacentres, the water industry has said in stark criticism of the government's AI growth plans. Datacentres rely on large amounts of water to manage heat …
An academic at the Australian National University has accused the institution of a 'hysterical' response to students using AI to cheat, as tertiary institutions rush to shore up the credibility of ass…
Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel admits the hardest part of AI alignment is choosing which values to encode into models, a decision that effectively lets Google decide what users are allowed …
A new generation of fashion designers is incorporating 'adversarial patterns' into garments to confuse facial recognition systems, as the technology expands across British public spaces. Companies are…