AI psychosis may be the most visible example of something much bigger and stranger. Excerpt: "LLMs influence our beliefs not just because they agree with us. They influence our beliefs because they are socially participating in reality with us. What makes something feel real isn’t that we say we believe it. Rather, it’s that our experiences exist in a world we share with others. For most of human history, new technologies have extended our cognitive capacities. Now they are p

Executives from Nvidia to Microsoft walk linguistic tightrope since decree, sometimes recalibrating in midsentence

After two years of little A.I. oversight, voters on Tuesday rejected data center projects and swept into office Democratic candidates who promised to regulate the technology. Related

AI will likely impact everything from the economy to the battlefield, but exactly how remains to be seen.

The more we use AI, the more it can start to shape our judgment, warns Wharton’s Cornelia Walther.

AI is starting to build better AI. This self-improvement is speeding up research and development—and freaking everyone out.

Using the same techniques that allowed A.I. technologies to crack a million-dollar math problem, researchers are building new systems that aim to solve the world’s cybersecurity crisis.

To build a better world in the age of AI, students need grounding in indispensable ideas. Excerpt: "In 1970, the poet, educator, and architect June Jordan posed the following question during a middle-school graduation speech in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn: “Where are the central, required courses that will teach us our real heritage of heroes and heroines, rebellion, and loving accomplishment?” Questions like this are at the forefront of my mind lately. Like Jordan, I’m a writer who

....while the United States and China are still economic and strategic rivals jostling for advantage, they both realize that there is now an intruder into their two-superpower marriage: the superempowered bad actor.

In an excerpt from his new book, 'Co-Existence,' Wharton’s Ethan Mollick explores AI’s rapid advances and their inevitable impact on how we work and live.

DM Good morning! What are your thoughts, concerns and estimates of likelihoods that, if this interview offers overall truth about Musk's agenda, he will ultimately succeed? Good morning. I’ll research this before estimating anything. The interview comes from two critics making strong claims, so I’ll check those claims and bring in the strongest counter-readings. I’ll treat “success” as several separate questions rather than one: the near-term political and midterm effects, e

Artificial intelligence (AI) could raise productivity across a wide range of occupations and tasks. But it could also replace workers who currently perform some of those tasks. How many workers AI might replace, and how quickly, remains an open question. These questions matter for the federal budget because the U.S. tax system relies heavily on income earned by workers. Individual income and payroll taxes generate roughly 85% of federal tax receipts.

Using sensors developed for self-driving cars, a Chinese start-up claims it can track and destroy tiny flying targets while avoiding people, pets and reflective surfaces.

The tech industry is booming, but most Americans don’t feel it.

Financial tips for AI doomers (and accelerationists)

Workers are increasingly worried that artificial intelligence will take their jobs. Back in the late 1950s, on the San Francisco docks just down the street from what’s now Anthropic’s headquarters, a longshore labor leader named Harry Bridges faced a similar fear: that a new technology would make jobs disappear. The Opinion video details the story of how Bridges fought to make technological change work for his longshoremen — and how workers today can use his playbook.

Investors are being asked to bet on a past that doesn’t look like Anthropic’s future.

Good day! Per our recent conversation regarding Holophrens as systems, I seek to add to your thinking about this topic. While every holophren is a system (aka: integrated elements for a function or purpose), holophren embodiment design (HED) often includes other internal or external/ambient systems, which may also be holophrens. For example, systems may "nested" be within the 13 distinct areas of a holophren, or one or more holophren may be within other systems, some of whic

The tech giant is funding one of the nation’s largest “virtual power plants,” which would pay homes and businesses to adjust their energy use when grids are strained.

The A.I. company took great pains to describe the many benefits that can come from using its Claude chatbot and technology, but also offered up a heavy dose of gloom.