Artificial Intelligence news

Government document says impossible to rule out technology poses existential threatArtificial intelligence brings new dangers to society that must be addressed “head on”, the prime minister will warn on Thursday, as the government admitted it could not rule out the technology posing an existential threat.Rishi Sunak will refer to the “new opportunities” for economic growth offered by powerful AI systems but will also acknowledge they bring “new dangers” includ

Low-income renters | Yocheved Lifshitz | Luton’s fightback | Words with a bad press | Artificial intelligenceGiving low-income families free heat pumps (Report, 18 October) sounds like a great idea. However, I suspect that the majority of low-income families live in rented accommodation, so the only people to really benefit from this giveaway would be the landlords. What’s to stop their next step being to evict these low-income families, increase the rent for the their newly enhanced

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as Lloyds Banking Group says UK house prices to fall and Boeing cuts 737 Max targetAn EY-linked auditor to the Adani Group is under scrutiny from India’s accounting regulator, Bloomberg News has reported.The National Financial Reporting Authority, or NFRA, has started an inquiry into, S.R. Batliboi, a member firm of EY in India, Bloomberg said, citing unnamed sources. Continue reading...

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as Lloyds Banking Group says UK house prices to fall and Boeing cuts 737 Max targetAn EY-linked auditor to the Adani Group is under scrutiny from India’s accounting regulator, Bloomberg News has reported.The National Financial Reporting Authority, or NFRA, has started an inquiry into, S.R. Batliboi, a member firm of EY in India, Bloomberg said, citing unnamed sources. Continue reading...

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as Lloyds Banking Group says UK house prices to fall and US halts Nvidia chip exports to ChinaAn EY-linked auditor to the Adani Group is under scrutiny from India’s accounting regulator, Bloomberg News has reported.The National Financial Reporting Authority, or NFRA, has started an inquiry into, S.R. Batliboi, a member firm of EY in India, Bloomberg said, citing unnamed sources. Continue reading...

Helen’s world is turned upside down when she discovers that her face has been digitally edited on to images of women in sexually explicit and often violent situations.Helen shares the impact this deepfake pornography has had on her life and challenges a culture that treats women’s appearance and image as public property while the perpetrators remain anonymous.    Deepfake pornography is an increasingly common form of image-based sexual abuse and in

Fellow tech company Intel ‘reviewing regulations’ as timing of move brought forward The chip designer Nvidia has said the US has told it to bring in new curbs on the export of some of its high-end artificial intelligence chips to China immediately as regulators advanced the deadline.The restrictions were supposed to come into play 30 days after 17 October, when the Joe Biden administration announced measures to stop countries, including China, Iran and Russia, from receiving advanced

Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial marketsHere are the opening snaps from across Europe’s stock market indices, via Reuters:EUROPE’S STOXX 600 DOWN 0.1%FRANCE’S CAC 40 DOWN 0.4%SPAIN’S IBEX DOWN 0.3%EURO STOXX INDEX DOWN 0.2%EURO ZONE BLUE CHIPS DOWN 0.3%Microsoft saw its shares rise +3.95% in after-market trading as revenues of $56.52bn (+13% y/y) beat estimates of $54.54bn and EPS came in at $2.99 (v $2.65 expected). The beat comes on the back o

In today’s newsletter: As Rishi Sunak gets ready to host a global AI summit at Bletchley Park, our global technology editor explains how experts want to mitigate its risks and harness its power• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. Does artificial intelligence (AI) pose an “extinction-level threat” to humankind or is it a remarkable “force for good” that could develop new drugs and gene therapies for previously incurable diseases (a