Artificial Intelligence news

Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman’s death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’The Guardian has accused Microsoft of damaging its journalistic reputation by publishing an AI-generated poll speculating on the cause of a woman’s death next to an article by the news publisher.Microsoft’s news aggregation service published the automated poll next to a Guardian story about the death of Lilie James, a 21-year-old w

BetterBlends promised to invest in the city’s beleaguered downtown but closed its doors in under two monthsIn September, a “bespoke AI nutrition” store opened in beleaguered downtown San Francisco to much fanfare, promising smoothie concoctions generated by AI and a much-needed boost to the area. Less than two months later, it has seemingly closed without explanation.BetterBlends advertised “Your Smoothie, powered by AI” and received positive press upon its opening,

Educators are trying to understand how these tools work and, perhaps most pressingly, how they can be misusedIn the year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, high school teacher Vicki Davis has been rethinking every single assignment she gives her students. Davis, a computer science teacher at Sherwood Christian Academy in Georgia, was well-positioned to be an early adopter of the technology. She’s also the IT director at the school and helped put together an AI policy in March: the school opted

The prime minister wants progress on this tech to be his legacy, but in truth he is failing to equip us for the challenges it bringsThe UK’s AI safety summit opens at Bletchley Park this week, and is the passion project of Rishi Sunak: a prime minister desperate for a good news story as his government looks down the barrel of a crushing election defeat.Sunak appears to want progress on AI to become his lasting legacy. Last week, he delivered a speech about the risks of AI if weaponised by

Statement asks government to help stop AI tools ‘using copyright-protected works with impunity’Four leading publishing trade associations have urged the UK government to help end the “unfettered, opaque development” of artificial intelligence tools that use copyright-protected works “with impunity.”The statement, released Tuesday, was co-signed by the Publishers Association, the Society of Authors, the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and the As

Experts say focus of the UK’s global AI summit on ‘frontier AI’ distracts from regulation of existing ills of technologyIn the spring of 2023, the UK government set out its plans to address the rapidly evolving AI landscape. In a white paper titled “A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation” the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology described the many benefits and opportunities she believed the technology to hold and explained the government&rsq