The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. We Asked 10 Experts What the Real Nightmares Are
The risk of nuclear catastrophe is real, as is the fallout of the China–US domination game (hi there, spies). But no need to panic about Skynet.
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My Journey to the Center of America's Political Spam Text Hell - WIRED
Sterling Data Company is a relatively small firm that uses AI to help Democrats find people likely to give them money. In 2022, Forbes reported ...
This Startup Is All In on Recursive Self-Improvement. Its Latest Model Is Scary Good | WIRED
It suggests that fully recursive self-improvement, or RSI—an exciting and controversial approach that uses AI to build AI—is getting closer. Flint ...
Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE's Use ofAI- WIRED
WIRED...AI-based tools are properly assessed for securityrisks. He also points to the Advancing AmericanAIAct, which requires federal agencies to …
An Adviser to Elon Musk's xAI Has a Way to MakeAIMore Like Donald Trump | WIRED
Dan Hendrycks is researching new methods of assessing AI risksthat could be used to shape Grok's politics …
OpenAI's o3-Mini Is a LeanerAIModel That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek | WIRED
DeepSeek's chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it's an innovation in training efficiency,hallucinations …
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Hands On With DeepSeek's R1 Chatbot - WIRED
...AI tools, like rampanthallucinations, invasive moderation, and questionably scraped material. How to Access the DeepSeek Chatbot. Users interested …
Why 'Beating China' InAIBrings Its Own Risks| WIRED
The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaboration—and thedangerof …
The Year of theAIElection Wasn't Quite What Everyone Expected | WIRED
...AI. At the outset of 2024, many suggested that even if not winning office, generative AI would play a pivotal role in—and pose significantrisks …
AIAgents Will Be Manipulation Engines | WIRED
Surrendering to algorithmic agentsrisksputting us under their influence …
I Used AI to Do All of My Holiday Shopping - WIRED
Chatbots aren't very good at picking gifts, but that didn't stop me from burning the planet in a quest for the perfect baking equipment …
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Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous - WIRED
However, in 2025,AI will still pose a massiverisk: not from artificial superintelligence, but from human misuse. These might be unintentional …
A New Benchmark for the RisksofAI- WIRED
MLCommons provides benchmarks that test the abilities of AI systems. It wants to measure the bad side of AI next …
Model Y Is Getting a Mutt Makeover, Joining the List of Cars Designed for—and by—Dogs
WIRED Hunt, it turned out, was a qualified safari ranger and animal lover who ran an agri-tech firm that uses AI to monitor the health and well-being of …
OpenAI's Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway | WIRED
...hallucination” in the AI field. Upon its release in 2022, OpenAI claimed that Whisper approached “human level robustness” in audio transcription …
A Lawsuit Against Perplexity Calls Out Fake News Hallucinations| WIRED
In a new copyright lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, Dow Jones and the New York Post argue thathallucinatingfake news and attributing it to …
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How a Trump Win Could Unleash DangerousAI- WIRED
Trump's election to a second term would dramatically reshape—and possibly cripple—efforts to protect Americans from the manydangersof poorly …
Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You - WIRED
“LLM agents are a customer service game changer,” says Mark Chrystal, CEO of Profitmind, a company that uses AI to provide retailers with analytics …
An 'iPhone of AI' Makes No Sense. What Is Jony Ive Really Building? | WIRED
Love From is designing “a product that uses AI to create a computing experience that is less socially disruptive than the iPhone.” What form the …
An 'AIScientist' Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments - WIRED
Letting programs learn through “open-ended” experimentation may unlock remarkable new capabilities, as well as newrisks …
The US Government Wants You—Yes, You—to Hunt Down GenerativeAIFlaws | WIRED
...AI challenges, known as Assessing Risksand Impacts of AI, or ARIA. Participants who pass through the qualifying round will take part in an in …
Researchers Have RankedAIModels Based on Risk—and Found a Wild Range | WIRED
Li and colleagues from several other universities, as well as Virtue AI, cofounded by Li, and Lapis Labs, recently developed a taxonomy of AI risks …
OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode | WIRED
...risk. OpenAI has faced scrutiny in recent months after a number of employees working on AI'slong-termrisksquit the company. Some subsequently …
Open SourceAIHas Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing - WIRED
...AI teams, has dominated the conversation in this new era ofartificial intelligence. ... Open source AI models have some inherentrisksthat more …
Meta's New Llama 3.1AIModel Is Free, Powerful, and Risky | WIRED
The newest version of Llama will make AI more accessible and customizable, but it will also stir up debate over thedangersof releasing AI …
OpenAI Is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion - WIRED
Sam Altman is touting AI'sability to sway people's behavior. His company is also wrestling with therisks …
How Apple Intelligence's Privacy Stacks Up Against Android's 'Hybrid AI' | WIRED
There are also securityrisksto be considered as AI technology is integrated into tech giants' operating systems. While Apple Intelligence is an …
AIIs the Latest Battleground for Hackers and Businesses - WIRED
...AICould Transform Cyber Defenses Today.AI can help address these newrisksand better manage oldthreatstoo. Unlike rules-based systems,AI can …
No Matter How You Package It, Apple Intelligence IsAI| WIRED
Maybe that's just ahallucination, but it's working. A still of many developers in attendance at Apple Park seated to watch Apple's keynote for …
Reduce AI Hallucinations With This Neat Software Trick - WIRED
One of the most popular approaches to reducing AI hallucination s—and one that is quickly growing more popular in Silicon Valley—is called retrieval …