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News Articles: Artificial intelligence

Malevolent robot stories used to be more about brawn than brain — so it was a genuine shock for audiences in 1968 when the sentient HAL-9000 computer calmly said, "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Above, Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea in <em>2001: A Space Odyssey</em>.

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  • Movies

'Open the pod bay door, HAL' — here's how AI became a movie villain

When Tom Cruise battles a sentient artificial intelligence "Entity" in the latest Mission Impossible film, he joins a long list of heroes who've had to fight a malevolent machine onscreen.

July 31, 2023
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  • Bob Mondello
President Biden is pictured with leaders on artificial intelligence during a visit to San Francisco on June 20. On Friday, the White House announced voluntary agreements with technology companies on managing AI.

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  • Politics

The White House and big tech companies release commitments on managing AI

Seven tech companies, including Google, Meta and OpenAI, have voluntarily made commitments on developing and managing artificial intelligence. But there isn't much accountability in the process.

July 21, 2023
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  • Deepa Shivaram
A visitor walks past shelves of books at the Mohammed bin Rashid Library in Dubai in June 2022. The library incorporates technology and artificial intelligence, including robots to help visitors and an electronic book retrieval system. It's just one example of the many ways AI has found its way into the world of books.

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  • Arts & Life

Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission

Nora Roberts, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Michael Chabon and Margaret Atwood are among those signing an Authors Guild letter asking artificial intelligence companies to get permission or offer compensation.

July 17, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
OpenAI's ChatGPT is being investigated by the Federal Trade Commission.

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  • Business

FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm

ChatGPT sees its first hint of regulation as the federal agency requests documentation about its business practices.

July 13, 2023
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  • Dara Kerr
(Photo Courtesy of Ian Britton via FreeFoto.com.)

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  • News

Georgia lawmakers poised to study real and imagined threats from artificial intelligence

Like many Georgians, Woodstock Republican state Rep. Brad Thomas has taken the opportunity to spend some time with ChatGPT, the popular AI-powered chatbot that has become the face of an apparent renaissance in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

July 03, 2023
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  • Ross Williams

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  • Technology

AI-generated text is hard to spot. It could play a big role in the 2024 campaign

Recent research shows how generative AI could make effective and cost efficient propaganda. It's difficult to detect AI-generated text, raising concerns about the 2024 election.

June 29, 2023
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  • Huo Jingnan
Christopher Wray

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  • News

FBI Director Christopher Wray discusses AI and technology threats at an event in his hometown

FBI Director Christopher Wray visited his home city to give updates on technology and public safety. 

June 21, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
Tessa was a chatbot originally designed by researchers to help prevent eating disorders. The National Eating Disorders Association had hoped Tessa would be a resource for those seeking information, but the chatbot was taken down when artificial intelligence-related capabilities, added later on, caused the chatbot to provide weight loss advice.

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  • Health

An eating disorders chatbot offered dieting advice, raising fears about AI in health

The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.

June 09, 2023
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  • Kate Wells
A recent video from Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis includes an image with three fake photos of former President Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci hugging. These three images appear to be AI-generated.

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  • Politics

DeSantis campaign shares apparent AI-generated fake images of Trump and Fauci

It's the latest example of how generative AI tools enable politicians to blur the line between fact and fiction.

June 08, 2023
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  • Shannon Bond
U.S Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley salutes during a D-Day anniversary ceremony at the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France on Tuesday.

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  • Europe

The U.S.' top general reflects on the changing face of war, 79 years after D-Day

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, marked the D-Day anniversary in Normandy this week. He spoke to NPR about the modernization of warfare and what AI might mean for the future.

June 06, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
It's still early days for AI in health care, but already racial bias has been found in some of the tools. Here, health care professionals at a hospital in California protest racial injustice after the murder of George Floyd.

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  • Health

AI in medicine needs to be carefully deployed to counter bias – and not entrench it

Powerful new artificial intelligence tools can perpetuate long-standing racial inequities if they are not designed very carefully. Researchers and regulators are taking note, but perils are vast.

June 06, 2023
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  • Ryan Levi and
  • Dan Gorenstein
Logo for OpenAI the makers of ChatGPT

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: How could AI affect the upcoming 2024 election cycle?

Thursday on Political Rewind: Host Bill Nigut welcomes Emory's Paul Root Wolpe to the panel. They discuss concerns about AI releasing deep fakes, misinformation, and lies during the 2024 election cycle.

May 25, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut and
  • Natalie Mendenhall
An aerial view of The Pentagon on May 10, 2023. Images that purported to show smoke rising from the headquarters of the U.S. armed forces appear to have been generated by artificial intelligence tools.

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  • Technology

Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI

Authorities quickly confirmed that no explosion had taken place but the faked images spread on Twitter for a short time. The incident briefly sent the stock market lower.

May 23, 2023
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  • Shannon Bond
Genetics, gut microbes and other lifestyle and environmental factors can impact how people's bodies react to food. An NIH study aims to find out how.

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  • Health

Our bodies respond differently to food. A new study aims to find out how

The NIH will track the diets and lifestyles of 10,000 people to see how genetics, biology and the microbiome impact people's health. The study will use AI to tailor individual diet advice.

May 19, 2023
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  • Allison Aubrey
Elon Musk speaking to journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at a conference in 2016. Musk's lawyers recently tried to argue in court that comments he made at that event could have been altered.

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  • Technology

People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes. The courts are not amused

The unleashing of powerful, generative AI on the public is raising concerns that as the technology becomes more prevalent, it will become easier to claim that anything is fake.

May 08, 2023
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  • Shannon Bond
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