The first thing I saw this morning when I opened X was an AI-generated trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom stood in a shapeless void alongside Captain America and Reed Richards. It was obvious slop but it was also close in tone and feel of the last five years of Disney’s…

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. Last week, news spread that a Chinese AI company, DeepSeek, had built a cutting-edge chatbot at a fraction of the cost of its American competitors. It sent the stock prices of American tech companies plummeting. But Microsoft…

Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated "slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining maintainers' time. Stenberg said the amount of time it takes project maintainers to triage each AI-assisted…

Recently, something shifted in the AI industry. Researchers began speaking urgently about the arrival of supersmart AI systems, a flood of intelligence. Not in some distant future, but imminently. They often refer to AGI - Artificial General Intelligence - defined, albeit imprecisely, as machines…

ChatGPT creator denies sister's childhood rape claim 8 January 2025 Peter HoskinsBusiness reporter Getty Images ChatGPT creator Sam Altman's sister, Ann Altman, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he regularly sexually abused her between 1997 and 2006. The lawsuit, which was filed on 6 January in a US…

Google reveals how it combats AI hacking with it's [+][-] own AI hacking bots. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Don’t think just because most of the security-related headlines concerning Google concern ongoing attacks such as those recently reported against Google Cloud, for example, or…

Howdy! It’s been a dog’s age since my last post 😅 consider this an official SOL. Over the past three months, I’ve been in the trenches of offensive ML, AI, and, unfortunately, Data Science. It’s been a rollercoaster of fun and frustration. This field is equal parts interesting and wildly…

Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose…

A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” “[A] key irony of automation is…

I keep running up against this argument about LLMs and generative AI: It's just like a calculator; it makes work faster, but doesn't change anything about the work you're doing. This isn't anything new. I get the instinct to normalize this invention, to place it in a box with others that came…

Unsafe at any seed AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests. Benj Edwards – Mar 13, 2025 9:16 PM | 112 Credit: Wong Yu Liang via Getty Images Credit: Wong Yu Liang via Getty…

(CN) — In a landmark opinion over the copyrightability of works created by artificial intelligence, a D.C. Circuit panel ruled on Tuesday that human authorship is required for copyright protection. As AI technology quickly advances and intertwines with human creations, the unanimous opinion lays…

Information security has a reputation of being a hard problem in tech. I don’t think it’s because it takes a genius to spot vulnerabilities; it’s because for any enterprise, the number of people adding risk — together with the number of people trying to get in — is orders of magnitude greater than…

In this post, we are sharing what we have learned about the trajectory of potential national security risks from frontier AI models, along with some of our thoughts about challenges and best practices in evaluating these risks. The information in this post is based on work we’ve carried out over the…

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines. These tools derive their value from crawling the internet for up-to-date, relevant…

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models still are no match for human coders — even though CEO Sam Altman insists they will be able to beat "low-level" software engineers by the end of this year. In a new paper, the company's researchers found that even frontier models,…

Imagine for a moment you are a child in 1941, sitting the common entrance exam for public schools with nothing but a pencil and paper. You read the following: “Write, for no more than a quarter of an hour, about a British author.” Today, most of us wouldn’t need 15 minutes to ponder such a question.…

You can only throw so much money at a problem. This, more or less, is the line being taken by AI researchers in a recent survey. Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human…

OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of OpenAI’s older models. Hallucinations have proven to be one of the biggest and most difficult…

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem…

The generative AI revolution shows no sign of slowing as OpenAI recently rolled out its GPT-4.5 model to paying ChatGPT users, while competitors have announced plans to introduce their own latest models—including Anthropic, which unveiled Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its latest language model, late last…

Founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told Bloomberg the company is in the midst of a recruitment drive to ensure customers always have a human to talk to. “[I]t’s so critical that you are clear to your customer that there will be always a human if you want,” he said. The apparent turnaround comes…

The university says it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student May 16, 2025 at 9:46 am ET The Massachusetts Institute of Technology didn’t give details on what it believes is wrong with the paper. Photo: Simon Simard/Bloomberg The Massachusetts Institute of…

Sign up for Big Think on Substack The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. Subscribe A few years ago, in 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine was fired for claiming that the chatbot he was working on was sentient. He believed that it could feel…

CYBERUK Peter Garraghan – CEO of Mindgard and professor of distributed systems at Lancaster University – asked the CYBERUK audience for a show of hands: how many had banned generative AI in their organizations? Three hands went up. "And how many, in your deepest of hearts, actually have a good grasp…

If you've been worried about the AI singularity taking over every job and leaving you out on street, you can now breathe a sigh of relief, because AI isn't coming for your career anytime soon. Not because it doesn't want to — but because it literally can't. A recent experiment by researchers at…

In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API – no scaffolding, no agentic frameworks, no tool use. Recently I’ve been auditing ksmbd for vulnerabilities. ksmbd is “a…

The new hire had a simple task. All they had to do was assign people to work on a new web development project based on the client's budget and the team's availability. But the staffer soon ran into an unexpected problem: They couldn't dismiss an innocuous pop-up blocking files that contained…

The latest fad amongst tech CEOs is no longer "founder mode", or taking drugs that they would fire you for taking, or telling everybody to return to the office — it's demanding that all work be AI-first! This is a great idea if you think nobody at your company is great at what they do. It may…

Published May 16, 2025 | Comments (208) | © Alex Wong/Getty Images Thanks to a new breed of chatbots, American stupidity is escalating at an advanced pace. The AI industry has promised to “disrupt” large parts of society, and you need look no further than the U.S. educational system to see how…

And yet, one of the first studies to look at AI use in conjunction with employment data finds the technology’s effect on time and money to be negligible. “AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation,” economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard…

This might be the highest leverage period for AI security in our generation New technology paradigms emerge faster than security can clean up their mess; consider the rise of personal computing and the Internet, where security fought a rear-guard action during and after mass adoption (and is still…

If and when AI will start replacing human labor has been the subject of numerous debates. While it’s still hard to say with certainty if AI is beginning to take over roles previously done by humans, a recent survey from the World Economic Forum found that 40% of employers intend to cut staff where…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who helms the company behind ChatGPT rival Claude, has warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out a staggering 50% of all entry-level white collar jobs, while spiking unemployment by up to 20% in the next five years, in a new interview with Axios. Amodei…

You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpmann is a software developer. He’s been trying out AI autocomplete for coding. He was very impressed at how good the…

Artificial Intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the process of transforming the human brain’s role in daily life? The Industrial Revolution diminished the need for manual labor. As someone who researches the application of AI in international business, I can’t help…

The ancient Greeks used the term “ouroboros” to symbolize the three fundamental phases in the cycle of life: life, death, and renewal. The cycle was visually represented as a serpent swallowing its own tail. As the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs)…