How to avoid deepfake fraud

Many people swear they can tell instantly if a photo has been generated by AI. In portrait shots the hair looks unnaturally shiny or the skin suspiciously unwrinkled. In landscape photos, the clouds l

STUART RUSSELL RECEIVES FOUR OR five emails a day from people who seem to be in the grips of psychosis, convinced their AI chatbot of choice is suddenly conscious. “It’s appointing them as its emissar

“I’VE ALWAYS BEEN SUCH A PUNK,” filmmaker Natasha Lyonne muses. “But AI is the thing that’s going to flip me into a hippie. Because now’s the time to get super low to the ground and human.” Lyonne has

An AI driven robot named Erbai, developed by a Chinese robotics company in Hangzhou, behaved unexpectedly when allowed to interact with other robots in a Shanghai robotics showroom. Although the inter

As AI becomes an increasingly dominant part of our lives, it’s no surprise that it’s extending into the dating sphere, with more people creating their own romantic companions. Closer looks at the dangers they can present…

MATTHEW PRINCE HAD TO BE CON-verted to the belief that AI is eating the web. It was 18 months ago that he started getting calls from media executives, who complained to him about AI companies copying