Palmer Luckey launched his first tech company as a teenager. He sold it to Facebook for $2 billion. Now he's making AI weapons the Pentagon is buying for itself and also sending to Ukraine.

The age of technologically assisted mass voter challenges is well upon us, and these tools could have a major impact on the 2024 elections. Fans of the apps say they will help prevent cheating by removing invalid voters from the rolls, making it harder for bad actors to cast fake votes. Opponents say all they will do is insert chaos into the process.

Georgia lawmakers may or may not develop legislation this summer and fall to establish state standards for regulating emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Young children today may never know a time without AI.  So how do you teach kids to use AI effectively — and ethically?

On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, the Senate Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence met for its first meeting. Created from Senate Resolution 476, the study committee will dedicate seven to eight meetings to look at AI, its current and future in Georgia, and the concerns surrounding it in society.

Van Jones is hoping the tech sector can bring both hope and opportunity when it comes to empowering Black and Brown communities. Speaking with GPB’s Pamela Kirkland, he talked about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and his non-profit, Dream Machine Innovation Lab.

More than 22,000 formerly enslaved people are found in records from Columbus that were released in a new project from Ancestry, one of the world’s largest genealogy companies.

The Seoul summit is a follow-up to last November's summit in the U.K., where participating countries agreed to work together to contain risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence.

As artificial intelligence seeps into some realms of society, it rushes into others. One area it's making a big difference is protein science — as in the "building blocks of life," proteins! Producer Berly McCoy talks to host Emily Kwong about the newest advance in protein science: AlphaFold3, an AI program from Google DeepMind. Plus, they talk about the wider field of AI protein science and why researchers hope it will solve a range of problems, from disease to the climate.

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A Jesus made of vegetables, bizarre log cabins, products that don't exist. AI-generated images are creating new forms of clickbait and causing some users to doubt what's real.

This week began with the Met Gala, which brought much-needed pageantry to the everyday lives of mortals. There was also real estate, dating apps, resignations and more.

Many authors are concerned about the use of their copyrighted material in generative AI models. At the same time, some are actively experimenting with the technology.

AI has been embraced in the business, computing and marketing worlds, but this year’s election is the first to see campaigns latching on to the new technology.

Images and videos from previous conflicts, video games and AI generators were often spread by accounts that pay to be boosted on the social media site once known as Twitter.

As more people, including minors, become victims of deepfake pornography and the industry that’s growing out of it, state lawmakers are pursuing legislation to deter the unauthorized creation and dissemination of digitally altered images.