“Not every experience should be pleasurable. Sometimes we need friction, safety warnings,” Turner said. Those disclosures ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has compared starting a tech company to starting a religion. But can we trust Big Tech to play God?

Despite OpenAI's bold claims of widespread improvements, GPT-5.2 feels largely the same as the model it replaces. Google, ...

North Carolina lawmakers should pass laws to curb the addictive nature of social media and to study the impact of artificial intelligence chatbots on young people, the North Carolina Child Fatality ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of social media, the internet and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,458 U.S.

If you think of something to say and say it, that could never be AI slop, right? In theory, all organically grown utterances and snippets of text are safe from that label. But our shared linguistic ...

Artificial-intelligence chatbots can influence voters in major elections — and have a bigger effect on people’s political views than conventional campaigning and advertising. The findings showcase the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the summer of 2019, a group of Dutch scientists conducted an experiment to collect ...

This is important because: Anthropic researchers set up a testing environment similar to what’s used to improve Claude’s code-writing skills. But instead of solving the puzzles properly, the AI found ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. There’s bad news coming for Microsoft users who like a sneaky day ...

Earlier this fall, a team of security experts at the AI company Anthropic uncovered an elaborate cyber-espionage scheme. Hackers—strongly suspected by Anthropic to be working on behalf of the Chinese ...