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How deepfakes threaten democracy — and what you can do to help
On July 26, Elon Musk uploaded a video to the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), narrated by what appeared to be Vice President Kamala Harris. Soon, however, it becomes clear that it wasn’t her. In the video, her sound-alike claims that she doesn’t “know the first thing about running the country” and…
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What we learned about OpenAI during this week’s Senate hearing
The US government is carefully watching AI companies. Every month, more and more DC insiders are waking up to the incredible amount of AI progress that may await us in the coming years, and how serious the implications of this will be. On Wednesday, September 18, the US Senate Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the…
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Following the trendlines: The pace of AI progress
If there’s one thing to know about the current state of AI development, it’s this: Things are moving faster than anyone anticipated. For a long time, there was uncertainty about whether the set of methods known as machine learning would ever be able to achieve human-level general intelligence, let alone surpass it. In the late…
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What are AI Companions and how could they cause harm?
Here’s What you should know about Replika’s privacy policy. One of the main ways that everyday people use AI today is in the form of “chatbots.” These are AI systems that are fluent in written language and who communicate with the user through a traditional direct messaging interface — if you’ve used OpenAI’s ChatGPT or…