AI & Society

An automated security-screening system failed to detect a weapon that went on to be used in an attack. Administrators at Proctor High School in Utica, New York, decommissioned an AI-powered weapon detector by Evolv Technologies after a student snuck a knife into the school, BBC reported.

Amid growing worries about AI’s power, tech leaders and politicians alike are arguing for regulating the technology. Leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google spoke publicly in favor of regulation. Meanwhile, national governments proposed new guardrails for generative AI.

A new regulatory body created by the European Union promises to peer inside the black boxes that drive social media recommendations. The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will study the algorithms that identify, categorize...

ChatGPT is helping some workers secretly hold multiple full-time jobs at once. Workers are using OpenAI’s chatbot to boost their productivity so they can earn separate paychecks from a number of employers, each of whom believes they are exclusive employees.

Do language models have their own opinions about politically charged issues? Yes — and they probably don’t match yours. Shibani Santurkar and colleagues at Stanford compared opinion-poll responses of large language models with those of various human groups.

Large language models may soon help military analysts and commanders make decisions on the battlefield.

A major political party in the United States used generated imagery in a campaign ad. The Republican Party released a video entirely made up of AI-generated images.

A pioneer of deep learning joined the chorus of AI insiders who worry that the technology is becoming dangerous, saying that part of him regrets his life’s work.

French lawmakers said “oui” to broad uses of AI-powered surveillance. France’s National Assembly authorized authorities to test systems that detect unlawful, dangerous, or unusual behavior at next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris. The bill will become law unless the country’s top court blocks it.

Stanford’s sixth annual AI Index takes stock of a rapidly growing field. The sprawling, 386-page report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI presents the past year’s developments in AI based on a wide variety of sources including benchmarks, papers, market research, job listings, and polls.

Italy blocked ChatGPT after determining that it violates European Union laws. The Guarantor for the Protection of Personal Data suspended access to ChatGPT for 20 days after saying that OpenAI enables underage children to use the chatbot, distributes misinformation about people...

Adults in the United States tend to view AI’s medical applications favorably but are leery of text and image generation. Pew Research Center polled 11,004 U.S. adults for their opinions of AI in science, healthcare, and media.

Meta’s effort to make a large language model available to researchers ended with its escape into the wild. Soon after Meta started accepting applications for developer access to LLaMA, a family of trained large language models...

Meet the Romanian government’s automated political adviser. The Prime Minister of Romania launched ION, a system that summarizes and organizes public comments for cabinet ministers, Politico.eu reported.

The output of AI-driven image generators is not protected by copyright in the United States. The U.S. Copyright Office concluded that copyright does not apply to images generated by the image generator Midjourney.