Artificial intelligence holds great promise to streamline business processes and improve efficiency. However, unchecked implementation without rigorous testing and vetting threatens to trample personal privacy rights on a massive scale. Recent cases reveal AI’s potential pitfalls if deployed without oversight. Retail chain Rite Aid subjected customers to humiliation and embarrassment after its facial recognition system […]

In 2023, the world was caught off guard by the meteoric rise of chatbot ChatGPT. Even OpenAI underestimated the public enthusiasm for their new AI system. Over 180 million users later, the difficulty of predicting AI’s trajectory has become abundantly clear. But the ChatGPT phenomenon was just one unexpected twist on AI’s wild ride last

The generative AI land rush echoes past digital gold rushes where Silicon Valley amassed enormous wealth often by sidestepping existing rules. In the early internet days, digital pioneers invented beloved tools for connecting the world, but also trampled norms around privacy and intellectual property in their race to scale. Legislators and courts struggled to keep

This clash encapsulates a broader reckoning in the AI field regarding intellectual property protections in the internet age. As models achieve new heights by ingesting vast swathes of digitized culture and commentary, the line between reference and infringement blurs. What was once purely academic research now births lucrative commercial applications, raising the stakes. For copyright

Rodney Brooks, a pioneer in robotics and artificial intelligence, believes the AI industry is due for a reality check. In his latest predictions scorecard, the former MIT lab director warns that despite recent major advancements like the emergence of chatbots, the field is heading towards an “AI winter.” Brooks argues that AI has followed a