3 Ways to Tame ChatGPT
[ad_1] This year, we’ve seen the introduction of powerful generative AI systems that have the ability to create images and text on demand. At the same time, regulators are on…
Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’
[ad_1] Since then, the quest to proliferate larger and larger language models has accelerated, and many of the dangers we warned about, such as outputting hateful text and disinformation en…
What It Means to ‘Feel Normal’ Online
[ad_1] Despite the flood of investigative exposés on dataveillance, users in the United States seem more enmeshed than ever in those infrastructures, as if they are responding with a collective…
If Humans Went Extinct, Would a Similar Species Evolve?
[ad_1] The rise of powerful new technology means that humanity must confront the risk of its own demise. The invention of nuclear weaponry, for example, has already shown just how…
What Adults Don’t Get About Teens and Digital Life
[ad_1] On a snowy winter day, we were in the library of a charter middle school in Portland, Maine. It was the first of many school visits where we teamed…