Study’s author says society not tech companies paying for environmental impact of AI and asks if this is fair The AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, it has been claimed. The global environmental impact of the … Read more
Commons committee monitoring revolving door that gave jobs to George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Tony Blair When the billionaire chief executive of AI chipmaker Nvidia threw a party in central London for Donald Trump’s state visit in September, the power imbalance between Silicon Valley and British politicians was vividly exposed. Jensen Huang hastened to the … Read more
Artificial intelligence will become smarter than ‘most or all humans in most or all ways’, says Dario Amodei Business live – latest updates Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or risk repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid companies, according to the chief executive of the AI startup … Read more
Anthropic says financial firms and government agencies were attacked ‘largely without human intervention’ A leading artificial intelligence company claims to have stopped a China-backed “cyber espionage” campaign that was able to infiltrate financial firms and government agencies with almost no human oversight. The US-based Anthropic said its coding tool, Claude Code, was “manipulated” by a … Read more
Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition Three songs generated by artificial intelligence topped music charts this week, reaching the highest spots on Spotify and Billboard charts. Walk My Walk and Livin’ on Borrowed Time by the outfit Breaking Rust topped Spotify’s “Viral 50” songs in the … Read more
New law will allow technology to be examined and ensure tools have safeguards to stop creation of material Tech companies and child protection agencies will be given the power to test whether artificial intelligence tools can produce child abuse images under a new UK law. The announcement was made as a safety watchdog revealed that … Read more
Scientists say almost all have weaknesses in at least one area that can ‘undermine validity of resulting claims’ Experts have found weaknesses, some serious, in hundreds of tests used to check the safety and effectiveness of new artificial intelligence models being released into the world. Computer scientists from the British government’s AI Security Institute, and … Read more
Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down contentious proposal to grant copyright exemption for AI models Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government has explicitly ruled out handing tech companies free rein to mine creative content to train their artificial intelligence models, after a fierce backlash from authors and … Read more
Jason Clare says artificial intelligence is ‘supercharging bullying’ to a ‘terrifying’ extent Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A disturbing new trend of AI chatbots bullying children and even encouraging them to take their own lives has the Australian government very concerned. Speaking to media on Saturday, the federal education … Read more
Dune star says performers are regularly pressed to have bodies scanned on set with few rights over how data is used ‘Have we done ourselves out of a job?’: concerns in film and TV industry over on-set body scanning Actors should have as much control over the data harvested from scans of their body as … Read more