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Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways? Read more…

Until very recently, if you wanted to know more about a controversial scientific topic – stem cell research, the safety of nuclear energy, climate change – you probably did a Google search. Presented with multiple sources, you chose what to read, selecting which sites or authorities to trust. Read more…

When a journalist for an online gun website asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT to provide him a summary of the case The Second Amendment Foundation v. Robert Ferguson earlier this year, he said the AI chatbot quickly spat out an answer. It confidently, allegedly claimed the case involved a Georgia radio host named Mark Walters… Read more…

Companies are beginning to dive into the AI workforce headfirst—at least that’s what the data are saying. A new report says that AI is responsible for almost 4,000 job cuts last month alone. Read more…

Chloe Preece, ESCP Business School and Hafize Çelik, University of Bath Read more…

Tired of search engine optimization run amok? After allowing users to flag some articles as clickbait, the Artifact news app now says it wants users to mark clickbait headlines they come across so it can rewrite the title text using AI. Hell, if enough users also report the same headline, Artifact will then display… Read more…

For some people, the term “black box” brings to mind the recording devices in airplanes that are valuable for postmortem analyses if the unthinkable happens. For others it evokes small, minimally outfitted theaters. But black box is also an important term in the world of artificial intelligence. Read more…

When an AI-generated image of an explosion occurring outside the Pentagon proliferated on social media earlier this week, it provided a brief preview of a digital information disaster AI researchers have warned against for years. The image was clearly fabricated, but that didn’t stop several prominent accounts like… Read more…