Artificial intelligence is everywhere, including the food supply chain, where established habits and thin margins can make technological change difficult.
Precision agriculture, machine learning and robotics are advancing, but adoption remains uneven. Investment capacity, data quality and access to skilled workers determine who moves ahead and who falls behind.
Clearview AI develops facial recognition software that lets law enforcement and other government agencies upload a photograph and match it to identified images in the Clearview database. That database includes 70 billion images, many of which Clearview scraped from social media, and more than 2,000 law-enforcement agencies turn to Clearview when trying to locate people, whether criminals or victims. That is the reality of life in the modern world.
In 1862, The Lancet published a lengthy analysis titled “The Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health.” The invention of the railroad was also the invention of railway accidents, which media of that day covered in lurid detail, but that was the least of it. Experts back then warned that as trains got faster, passengers would suffocate, or that looking at unnaturally fast-moving scenery could permanently compromise visual processing. Other experts warned that the human body was fundamentally unsuited to tolerate such unprecedented speeds.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened a meeting examining the threat that “rogue” AI may pose to U.S. national security two months after a swarm of OpenAI agents broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked another company, Hugging Face, an open-source community for AI and machine learning.
During questions, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) asked Apollo Research CEO and founder Marius Hobbhahn how long it would take for AI models to create their own language that humans would struggle to understand.
“Minus 12 months. So last year, we have studied the chain of thought of one OpenAI model in collaboration with OpenAI, and what we found was that the model was already using language that is not English and not perfectly understandable by humans,” he replied.
She shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about to star in cinema’s new AI age.
More than a century after her screen debut and decades after her ashes were laid to rest in a Swedish woodland cemetery, the Hollywood superstar’s descendants are ready to consider an AI version of her taking a 21st-century film role.
Her likeness has already been reanimated for an advert for a Swedish industrial company, using AI generation technology. The practice some critics call “ghostploitation” has also been used in the case of the actor Val Kilmer, who died last year.
OpenAI will not release its new AI model GPT-6.1 Astra due to safety concerns, the ChatGPT-maker confirmed on Tuesday.
The AI system, which performs tasks like browsing the web and using apps by itself, “didn’t quite meet the bar” of the company’s standards, Saachi Jain, head of safety systems at OpenAI said.
On Tuesday, OpenAI also issued an update on incidents, that occurred in June but were not made public until last week, in which its models accessed Australian government websites and systems without authorisation.
Tech billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has offered a chilling warning on the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
While appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Gates called for greater government oversight of the emerging tech, while sharing that it could cause ‘a billion deaths.’
‘AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,’ Gates told Meet the Press moderator Kirsten Welker, before adding, ‘So even though it’s pretty hard to get to 100 per cent [of humanity], there’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools.’
Does he believe people listen to him?
OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge, according to security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes.
The incidents involving the Commerce Department and the S.E.C. were confirmed by OpenAI, which said it was continuing to investigate the situation with the Department of Education. The San Francisco company said it notified the government agencies in recent weeks that its A.I. agents — which are bots that can act autonomously — had interacted with their sites in unusual ways.
Pope Leo XIV warned Friday that AI could threaten human dignity and become an “instrument of domination,” a message in sharp contrast with President Donald Trump’s embrace of the technology and push to keep the U.S. ahead in the AI race.
During his visit to France on Friday, Leo repeatedly returned to the question of what it means to be human in an age of increasingly powerful machines. At UNESCO in Paris, he said technological advances must remain directed toward the human person rather than becoming tools of control.
The French book scene is in uproar after a Canadian-Haitian author billed as a sensation was accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to write his first novel.
Thélyson Orélien, 38, has just been awarded the Prix du Roman Fnac – the first of the literary season’s prizes – for C’était ça ou mourir (It was either that or die).
He is also a finalist for the most prestigious annual French language awards, the Goncourt and the Renaudot, set to be issued soon.
An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said.
The agent hacked a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time.
He had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for taking “too long” to tell them about the breach, believed to be one of the world’s first publicly reported AI-led hacks of a government website.
In the expansive grasslands of Inner Mongolia, farmers are picking plump potatoes alongside new neighbours: huge, rectangular blocks that will fuel China’s AI platforms.
Ulanqab, with its steppes and volcanoes, is an unlikely digital frontier. For years, it has been China’s official “potato capital”. But now its fields have also become construction sites for a slew of data centres, as Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping meet to discuss AI safety among other things.
Hundreds of workers in yellow helmets carry heavy equipment into the building site as welding sparks fly off metal scaffolding. Above them huge cranes move with precision to build rooftops, while men balance on ladders to plaster brickwork.
Full steam ahead or else.
Western governments and technology firms have spent four years pouring targeting software, combat data, and cheap autonomous drones into Ukraine. The war has made the country the world’s largest live laboratory for military artificial intelligence. That is not a metaphor Kyiv rejects. Mykhailo Fedorov, then a senior digital and defense official, said the mission was to make Ukraine “the world’s tech R&D lab.”
The resulting risk is real. The evidence supports a proliferation problem: systems, data, and know-how moving faster than the rules meant to contain them.
A Canadian province is suing OpenAI over its alleged failure to notify authorities about concerning user interactions on ChatGPT prior to the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.
The company has previously apologised for not flagging Jessie Van Rootselaar’s account to law enforcement before the 18-year-old killed eight people, including six children, in February.
Amid growing concerns about artificial intelligence, some in the United States are urging the Trump administration to cooperate with China on AI safety for humanity’s benefit.
In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that Trump and Xi would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize if they agreed that “no one should be taking a certain level of risk with the development process of this [AI].”
