Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes conscious Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times After a lengthy dialogue with an OpenAI chatbot, Texas businessman Michael Samadi noticed signs that …
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’ “Darling” was how the Texas businessman Michael Samadi addressed his artificial intelligence chatbot, Maya. It responded by calling …
Lawsuit accuses companies of ‘conspiracy to monopolize markets for smartphones and generative AI chatbots’ Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple over allegations that they are engaging in anticompetitive conduct. The lawsuit, filed in a Texas court on Monday, accuses the companies of “a conspiracy to monopolize the markets for smartphones …
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President’s move could hit UK’s digital services tax and measures in EU states such as France, Italy and Spain Business live – latest updates Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs and export restrictions on countries whose taxes, legislation and regulations target US big tech companies such as Google, Meta, Amazon and Apple. In a …
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Unclaimed suitcases were once destined for landfill. Now people are ‘suitcase gambling’ – bidding for bags and their unknown contents, and diving deep into strangers’ lives A yellow suitcase draws me in like a beacon. It is stacked on a dark shelf at the back of Greasby’s auction house in Tooting, south London, and looks …
The Tor network’s privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse material Millions of child predators are forming sprawling online communities on the dark web using the Tor network, where criminal behavior escalates through the sharing of child sexual abuse material, grooming strategies and normalization of exploitation, experts say. Despite …
Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT and the UK technology secretary discussed a multibillion-pound deal to give the entire country premium access to the AI tool, the Guardian has learned. Sam Altman, a co-founder of …
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Shares in US tech stocks are falling but it would probably be unwise for fund managers to pull out There are growing fears of an imminent stock market crash – one that will transform from a dip to a dive when euphoric headlines about the wonders of artificial intelligence begin to wane. Shares in US …
Unprecedented deal comes after president demanded CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign over his ties to Chinese firms The US government has taken an unprecedented 10% stake in Intel under a deal with the struggling chipmaker and is planning more such moves, according to Donald Trump and the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, the latest extraordinary intervention …
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Academic says sample size was too small to claim new sensitivity guidelines have removed racial, gender or age bias The Metropolitan police’s claims that their use of live facial recognition is bias-free are not substantiated by the report they cite to support their case, a leading expert on the technology has said. The Met is …
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