Conscious MachinesHow Much Should We Worry About AI Sentience? Machines may not have gained consciousness yet, but concerns around AI sentience are growing. By Hetvi Kamdar
Whose Intelligence is it Anyway?CNET Was Quietly Publishing AI‑Authored Articles The AI wrote under the byline "CNET Money Staff" -- misleading readers and writers, and adding to fears around job security and credibility. By Amlan Sarkar
AI Approach the BenchWorld’s First “Robot Lawyer” Will Soon Defend a Human in Court DoNotPay’s "robot lawyer" aims to reduce the costs associated with accessing justice through lawyers -- but raises ethical questions. By Ananya Singh
Big Tech CheckGenerative AI Puts Us on the Brink of a Deepfakes Crisis Generative AI is an emerging paradigm in tech that makes the creation of deepfakes much easier -- and more monetizable. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
artificial musicAI Music Is Here. Can It Change the Future of Art? As more artists — including musicians and actors — become compelled to protect their work and likenesses against AI replication using intellectual property law, the world has less access to their talent. By Amlan Sarkar
A Lesson In The Art of Giving CreditLawsuit Raises Copyright Concerns in AI‑Generated Work The lawsuit against Github Copilot echoes concerns of copyright infringement and ethics in AI training and output. By Ananya Singh
Google Translate for AnimalsHow Technology Is Helping Decode Animal Language Scientists have been trying to "translate" animal languages -- an ambitious project that could shape our relationship with different species. By Ananya Singh
Dead On The Digital InsideWhat the ‘Dead Internet Theory’ Predicted About the Future of Digital Life As AI takes over more content, it brings us closer to a conspiracy theory that predicted just that. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Bad JobA Podcast With AI‑Generated Steve Jobs Raises Ethical Concerns Whose likenesses do we get to use after their incapacitation — and can they consent? By Rohitha Naraharisetty
AI Rights and WrongsU.S. White House Releases Blueprint for an ‘AI Bill of Rights’ The document stresses on the importance of protecting Americans from the excesses of tech, but ignores how R&D creates global inequalities. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Artificial CultureWhy AI Art Makes the Internet — And Art — Less Authentic “...the question arises as to whether this is 'creativity' or the mere appearance of creativity masking unethical technical and artistic practices." By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Crisis MismanagementWhy Researchers Working on AI Argue It Could Cause ‘Global Disaster’ A new paper warns that artificial intelligence “could considerably erode a state’s sense of security and jeopardize crisis stability.” By Saumya Kalia
Lost in Algorithmic TranslationScientists Are Teaching a Robot How to Laugh Robots may eventually laugh like us, and with us, reflecting a desire for A.I. to reproduce every part of "human-like" intelligence, including empathy. By Saumya Kalia
Error in ProgrammingHow Facial Recognition AI Reinforces Discrimination Against Trans People Facial recognition technology continues to carry an extremely limited view of what gender looks like. By Sayantan Datta
Artificial ImitationAn AI Rapper Perpetuated Racist Stereotypes, Showing How Tech Commodifies Culture AI people are ahistorical. To give them a race, a culture, and a vocabulary that's born out of a centuries-old history shows how AI tech can commodify human beings. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Who Is More Likely to be SexistGender Bias in Search Algorithms Shapes Hiring Choices, People’s Beliefs: Study The use of A.I. to shape our ideas and choices may then result in reinforcing social disparities, instead of reducing them. By Saumya Kalia
Are You Smarter Than a Baby?Researchers Develop AI That Can Think Like a Human Baby The AI, named PLATO, was trained to "address the gap between humans and machines" by drawing on developmental psychology. By Rohitha Naraharisetty
Manmade IntelligenceNew Experiment Shows Robots With Faulty AI Make Sexist, Racist Decisions Researchers note robots "have all the problems that software systems have, plus their embodiment adds the risk of causing irreversible physical harm." By Rohitha Naraharisetty