• Not yet panicking about AI? You should be – there's little time left to rein it in | Daniel Kehlmann

    Only a handful of people grasp the magnitude of the changes that are about to hit us. They’re exciting – and terrifyingA short while ago, a screenwriter friend from Los Angeles called me. “I have three years left,” he said. “Maybe five if I’m lucky.” He had been allowed to test a screenplay AI still in development. He described a miniseries: main characters, plot and atmosphere – and a few minutes later, there they were, all the episodes, written a
  • AI advances could lead to more child sexual abuse videos, watchdog warns

    AI advances could lead to more child sexual abuse videos, watchdog warns
    IWF warns of more AI-made child sexual abuse videos as tools behind them get more widespread and easier to useAdvances in artificial intelligence are being used by paedophiles to produce AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse that could increase in volume as the technology improves, according to a safety watchdog.The majority of such cases seen by the Internet Watch Foundation involve manipulation of existing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or adult pornography, with a child’s face t