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Exclusive: Google executives gave employees details on dropping the company’s promise against weaponized AI and nixing diversity goalsGoogle’s executives gave details on Wednesday on how the tech giant will sunset its diversity initiatives and defended dropping its pledge against building artificial intelligence for weaponry and surveillance in an all-staff meeting.Melonie Parker, Google’s former head of diversity, said the company was doing away with its diversity and inclusio

Voice actors demanding compensation when AI generates performances from their work have taken industrial action since JulyWhen Harrison Ford spoke to the Wall Street Journal last week, praising the performance of voice actor Troy Baker in the recent video game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, he was doing much more than recognising a great impression of himself. “You don’t need artificial intelligence to steal my soul,” he told the paper. “You can already do it for nic

Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies onSonia Kgomo is an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising; she spoke at the AI Action summit this weekMark Zuckerberg might be done with factchecking, but he cannot escape the truth. The third richest man in the world announced that Meta will replace its independent factchecking with community notes. I went to the AI Action Summit in Paris this week to tell tech execs and policymakers

My heart says he is settling scores and making mischief. My head fears Trump might like an ally controlling the key AI companyElon Musk and Sam Altman aren’t exactly the best of friends. The two had a blowout argument over the future direction of OpenAI – the company they came together to found in 2015 – with Altman seemingly content to pursue a for-profit approach and Musk feeling that was forswearing the founding principles of the firm as well as its name. OpenAI couldn&rsquo

Automated online application processes save time and money but are being targeted by ‘the future of fraud’British universities seeking to save time and money by automating their interviews with international students face a new threat: “deepfake” applicants.Enroly, a software platform used by a number of universities to automate their application processes, said it had uncovered something “straight out of a sci-fi film” after catching a small number of candida