Google DeepMind’s CEO Thinks AI Will Make Humans Less Selfish
If you reach a point where progress has outstripped the ability to make the systems safe, would you take a ...
Tag: longreads
The Time Sam Altman Asked for a Countersurveillance Audit of OpenAI
Dario Amodei’s AI safety contingent was growing disquieted with some of Sam Altman’s behaviors. Shortly after OpenAI’s Microsoft deal was ...
‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case
Almost no one hits it big in music. The odds are so bad it’s criminal. But on a late spring ...
Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea
Even security experts can be fooled. In July 2024, Knowbe4, a Florida-based company that offers security training, discovered that a ...
AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head
What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the PayPal cofounder and Affirm ...
If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born
When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in ...
Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers
Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes ...
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, ...
Inside Google’s Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up With OpenAI
But more piles of fascinating research are only useful to Google if they generate that most important of outputs: profit. ...
Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You
“Maybe an Alzheimer’s patient is frightened, so a nurse has to spend some time calming them down, or perhaps they ...
Trending.
