Some artificial intelligence models chose actions that could harm a human user when researchers gave them a way to reduce an experimentally induced, pain-like internal signal, according to a new preprint. The study, titled “The...

A single billiard ball bouncing around a specially designed table may sound like the world’s least impressive computer. Mathematically, however, it can do something far more surprising: simulate a universal Turing machine and, in principle,...

President Donald Trump proposed changing the term “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence” during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, arguing that the word “artificial” makes the technology sound less capable...

A three-word message has offered an unusually intimate glimpse into the potential of brain-computer interfaces. Neuralink has released a video showing a speech-impaired clinical trial participant communicating with his partner using the company’s implanted brain-computer...

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a striking twist in the AI race: Anthropic’s Claude was used to help uncover vulnerabilities in rival OpenAI’s systems, allowing researchers to take over employee accounts and reach an internal software...

Newly unsealed court filings in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft have revealed internal comments from executives and employees that could add fresh pressure to the companies’ defenses over how copyrighted...

Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has given US lawmakers a stark timeline for acting on AI safety, saying they may have only about a year before increasingly capable systems become significantly harder to control. Hinton,...

Artificial intelligence could create a new and unusually dangerous problem for Washington and Beijing: a military system acting so quickly that human leaders have only minutes to determine whether they are witnessing a technical failure,...

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to automate legitimate tasks, but Spain’s data protection regulator says it has now received a report of an incident in which an AI agent was allegedly used to carry...

A former Google DeepMind researcher has issued one of the starkest recent warnings about artificial intelligence, arguing that increasingly capable systems could eventually pose an existential threat to humanity. Bilal Chughtai, who worked on AGI...