In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that he is renaming artificial intelligence, or AI, directing all U.S. agencies to call it “super intelligence” and encouraging the world community to follow suit. The proposed name change comes as public concerns are mounting regarding the technology’s unregulated expansion…
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President Donald Trump has dismissed legitimate concerns about the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), comparing them to the “hoax” of the climate crisis. “The same people that said, ‘We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming’ … are the people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us, that robots are going to attack us, and everything is a DISASTER…
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The U.S. military reportedly “almost started a war” earlier this year over an errant report created by an analyst who was using artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the contents of a ship from China in waters near the Middle East. According to CNN, the AI wrongly informed a special operations command analyst that the ship was transporting components that could be used to aid in the…
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Newly unsealed court documents reveal that employees at Microsoft and OpenAI expressed alarm that AI systems they were jointly developing could lead to an “existential threat” to the publishing industry. The court document in question is part of a joint filing from news organizations, including The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and 10 other publications that are suing Microsoft and…
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The Trump administration is reportedly considering a dozen data center projects to be built on public lands, a plan that would grant tech firms massive swaths of protected lands as they expand AI projects already sharply criticized for outsized use of public resources. The proposals under consideration are spread across six states — Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming — and would…
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In Truth Social posts on Monday, President Donald Trump downplayed concerns about artificial intelligence (AI), calling criticism of its unregulated expansion a “hoax,” even as experts warn about the speed at which the technology is growing. The president’s post cited imagery reminiscent of sci-fi movies, rather than referencing the ways in which AI is already being used in warfare and to…
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