… However, he said, “We should heed the saying, ‘AI won’t take your job but someone who knows AI might.’” Employees’ performance will be based not on just using AI, but having an “impact” with it, Bosworth said. …
… How we talk about these machines impacts what we think they can achieve. “As a fallacy, anthropomorphism is shown to distort moral judgments about AI, such as those concerning its moral character and status, as well as judgments of responsibility and trust,” reads a research paper published in the … …
… Their job is to check material generated by Meta’s AI models against the company’s rules barring dangerous and illegal content. “It’s essentially training the AI to take over our jobs,” claims another Covalen employee, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation. “We take actions as the p… …
… WIRED previously reported how an economic research team under Lehane had struggled to report on AI’s negative impacts on the economy. “Over the past year, we’ve had a front-row seat not just to OpenAI but to the entire ecosystem, covering the daily news, announcements, and launches in real time,” s… …
… The new bill focuses not only on the environmental and community impacts of data centers, but on AI safety as a whole. …
… Firefox is open source, a type of software that in general could be particularly impacted by new AI bug hunting capabilities given that many open source projects are widely used and relied upon around the world and yet are often maintained by a very small group of volunteers or just one person. …
… But the researchers said that incident was a crucial illustration of the changing bug-hunting landscape. “We all assumed it was already happening, and this is our first evidence that it is happening,” John Hultquist, Google Threat Intelligence Group chief analyst, says of attackers using AI to disc… …
… AI Panic Meta is not alone in cutting jobs while spending lavishly on AI services and infrastructure. Block, Coinbase, and Cloudflare have all laid off thousands of employees, citing AI as a catalyst for the restructuring. …
… The former employees argued that their warnings about AI’s economic impacts may have been inconvenient for OpenAI, but they honestly reflected what the company’s research found. …
… Privacy experts I spoke with said this level of detail may feel invasive, but it's fairly standard for how large companies in America run their loyalty programs. “This report contains specific pieces of personal information about you that were identified by searching McDonald’s systems which contai… …