June 10, 2025
(Wired) – Outro, which is now available in seven states, wants to help people taper off antidepressants without experiencing debilitating side effects. Outro officially launched in the US last month and is currently available in seven states, including California and … Read More
June 10, 2025
(Wired) – As power over artificial intelligence concentrates in a handful of companies, a new report urges advocacy groups to expose the technology’s connection to broader economic struggles. On Tuesday, the AI Now Institute, a think tank that studies the … Read More
June 9, 2025
(New York Times) – OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has a plan to overhaul college education … Read More
June 9, 2025
(New York Times) – Many experts argue that addiction is, in essence, love gone awry: a singular passion directed destructively at a substance or activity rather than an appropriate person. With the advent of A.I. companions — including some intended … Read More
June 9, 2025
(NBC 4i) – Starting this fall, every Ohio State student will be asked to use artificial intelligence. “Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be ‘bilingual’ — fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI … Read More
June 9, 2025
(The Conversation) – As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The robots I’ve been studying are friendly, helpful machines that can talk, remind, monitor – and even offer a form … Read More
June 4, 2025
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 5, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
June 3, 2025
(Daily Mail) – Sir Tony Blair has urged Britain to embrace AI doctors and nurses as he said the world was ‘in the foothills’ of the biggest tranformation since the Industrial Revolution. The former prime minister claimed AI could have … Read More
June 3, 2025
(NBC News) – Some of the most powerful artificial intelligence models today have exhibited behaviors that mimic a will to survive. Recent tests by independent researchers, as well as one major AI developer, have shown that several advanced AI models … Read More
June 3, 2025
(Wired) – Brain-Computer Interface startup Paradromics today announced that surgeons successfully inserted the company’s brain implant into a patient and safely removed it after about 10 minutes. It’s a step toward longer trials of the device, dubbed Connexus. It’s also … Read More
June 2, 2025
(Smithsonian Magazine) — Siddarth Nandyala wants to put his tool in the hands of medical professionals so that they can catch cardiovascular abnormalities in their early stages In trials in India, Siddarth Nandyala detected and diagnosed more than 40 patients … Read More
May 30, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – What a psychotherapist learned during his chats with a large language model. Under intellectual, logical, and ethical pressure, Claude began producing responses that mimicked the structure of introspection. It examined its own phrasing. It noted its … Read More
May 30, 2025
(Wired) – I’ve covered Google’s AI Overviews since its messy rollout last year, when screenshots of absurdly wrong answers started popping up at the top of search results and going viral on social media. Still, when I first saw images … Read More
May 29, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – We tried to direct an AI film with Veo and Runway. The tools are magic. The process is madness. Welcome to the premiere of “My Robot & Me.” Please silence your phones, chew your popcorn quietly … Read More
May 28, 2025
(Financial Times) – Innovators are rolling out products aimed at relieving understaffing by automating mundane tasks Robots have assisted surgeons for decades, but now they are being deployed to new areas of US hospitals as the healthcare industry grapples with … Read More
May 27, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making AI agents truly useful. AI agents trained on Claude Opus 4, the company’s most powerful model to date, raise the … Read More
May 27, 2025
(TIME) – Once again, Sam Altman wants to show you the future. The CEO of OpenAI is standing on a sparse stage in San Francisco, preparing to reveal his next move to an attentive crowd. “We needed some way for … Read More
May 27, 2025
(TIME) – An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” This 6-month moratorium would be better than no moratorium. I have … Read More
May 27, 2025
(TechCrunch) – Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said … Read More
May 26, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next AI’s integration into our lives is the most significant shift … Read More
May 23, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – People pick up on physical cues that artificial intelligence models miss One thing AI can’t do? Read your body language. To test how well artificial intelligence interprets physical cues, researchers at Johns Hopkins University pitted human … Read More
May 23, 2025
(The Conversation) – Doable? Theoretically, mind uploading should be possible. Still, you may wonder how it could happen. After all, researchers have barely begun to understand the brain. Yet science has a track record of turning theoretical possibilities into reality. … Read More
May 23, 2025
(The Hedgehog Review) – AI cannot save us from the effort of learning to live and die. Tot up the overeager salesmen, the questionable prophecies, and the clearly exorbitant costs, and it becomes clear: AI is not revolutionary. It’s a … Read More
May 22, 2025
(Wired) – AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published Thursday in the journal Joule shows. That demand from AI, the research states, could double by the end of this year, … Read More
May 22, 2025
(Nature) – Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision goggles. Researchers have made the first contact lenses to convey infrared vision — and the devices work even when people have their eyes … Read More