The image in the age of ai

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

JOANNE JANG SEES HER WORK AS “empowering users to fulfill their goals” right up to the point of not causing harm or infringing on others’ freedoms. “AI-lab employees should not be the arbiters of what

“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

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

UNDER A CRYSTAL CHANDELIER IN A HIGH-ceilinged anteroom in Paris, the moderator of Intelligence Rising is reprimanding his players. These 12 former government officials, academics, and artificial inte

FEW POLITICAL LEADERS REALIZE THE RATE AT which artificial intelligence is racing ahead. For decades, technological progress has been logged at a pace known as Moore’s Law, named after Gordon Moore, t