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TIME held its first-ever TIME100 AI Leadership Forum in New York City, bringing together leaders from the TIME and TIME100 AI communities to discuss artificial intelligence’s impact on business, policy, ethics, and socie…
Large language models can generate thousands of simulated survey responses by varying demographic prompts and sampling internal randomness, but independent research from Gallup, NORC, and Stanford GSB shows these synthet…
Karan Bhatia, Google's Global Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy, praised Singapore's approach to artificial intelligence during a visit for Asia Tech x Singapore and the AI Ready ASEAN Youth Challenge. Bhatia st…
South Korean authorities arrested YouTuber Kim Se-ui on suspicion of using AI voice-cloning technology and doctored screenshots to defame actor Kim Soo-hyun. The Seoul Central District Court approved the arrest warrant, …
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, fails to address the most pressing questions of transformative artificial intelligence, focusing instead on dated issues like algorithmic bias and data sovereignty. Th…
Glendale Community College's AI name-reading system crashed mid-graduation ceremony, leaving students to walk across the stage in silence as families booed from the stands. The incident highlights growing tensions as sch…
The legal profession is poised to return to a generalist, small-firm model as artificial intelligence automates the document review, drafting, and research tasks that have underpinned the pyramid-shaped associate structu…
Only 18% of U.S. K-12 teachers have received formal guidance from school administrators on using AI tools, despite 60% using AI for their work, according to a new Walton Family Foundation and Gallup study. The survey of …
AI data centers in rural America are consuming massive amounts of groundwater for server cooling, directly competing with local farms for finite aquifer resources. The facilities, which support AI workloads and cloud sto…
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," integrates artificial intelligence within Catholic social teaching on human dignity and labor, but theologians and pastors must now extend its principles to address…
A new academic paper argues there is no definitive solution to the challenge artificial intelligence poses to student assessment, classifying the issue as a "wicked problem" with no correct or incorrect answers. The auth…
Media entrepreneur Steven Rosenbaum blamed ChatGPT for fake quotes in his book *The Future of Truth*, which explores AI's impact on reality, after *The New York Times* reported multiple fabricated or misattributed citati…
Character.AI users are flooding Reddit with complaints that recent updates have ruined the popular chatbot app, with many describing the new AI model as "lobotomized" and generic. The company has replaced user-favored AI…
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," on May 25, addressing the moral and social implications of artificial intelligence. The 42,300-word document calls for safeguards to protect human dignit…
A Mercer survey of 12,000 workers, including 825 executives, found 99% of C-suite leaders expect artificial intelligence to trigger layoffs within two years. The share of employees classified as "thriving" dropped from 6…
Wharton visiting scholar Cornelia Walther warned that quantum AI will accelerate capabilities beyond current generative systems and urged leaders to invest in human agency now. Investment in quantum technologies exceeded…
A Thai police sergeant admitted that a viral image of officers in sparkly dresses during a drug raid was AI-generated, not a real photograph. The picture, which spread globally and was reported as genuine by major media …
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, *Magnifica Humanitas*, defends human imperfection as a source of dignity and warns against outsourcing human capabilities to artificial intelligence. The document argues that human limitati…
Henry Farell argued at a Blavatnik School of Government talk that AI should be understood as a "lossy information aggregation tool," comparing it to historical systems like state bureaucracies and markets. Farell critici…
Bondu, a $300 stuffed dinosaur equipped with an AI chatbot that speaks 27 languages, plays games, and helps with homework, is being marketed as a screen-free alternative to tablets and phones for children. The toy, which…