The New York Times

I Tried to Sell My House With a Chatbot

Over five frantic days, I gambled my family’s life savings on a hunch that A.I. could outperform a real estate agent. Al Torreggiani By Stuart A. Thompson Stuart Thompson is a technology journalist ...
Scientific American

The pope is warning about AI. Anthropic is asking religious thinkers for help

In late March around 15 religious thinkers met with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic to discuss one of the strangest and most consequential questions now facing the AI industry: How do ...
The Verge

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote ...
Reuters

OpenAI faces lawsuit in California court claiming chatbot gave advice that led to fatal overdose

Parents allege ChatGPT gave drug advice leading to son's fatal overdose Lawsuit seeks damages, halt to ChatGPT Health rollout, cites lack of safety testing OpenAI says safeguards improved, chatbot not ...
The Washington Post

See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article.

Chatbots like ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, ...
TechCrunch

Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after a chatbot allegedly posed as a doctor

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Character.AI, claiming that one of the company’s chatbots masqueraded as a psychiatrist in violation of the state’s medical licensing rules ...
Ars Technica

Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license

Pennsylvania has sued the maker of Character.AI, alleging that it violated state law by presenting an AI chatbot character as a licensed doctor. The lawsuit was filed in a state court by the ...
CNN

How ChatGPT conversations became ‘a treasure trove’ of evidence in criminal investigations

Days before two University of South Florida graduate students went missing last month, a roommate of one of the students allegedly asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT an unusual question. “What happens if a ...
The New York Times

A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons

Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces. Credit...Vanessa Saba Supported by By Gabriel J.X. Dance ...
CNBC

We tried out xAI's Grok chatbot while driving a Tesla in NYC. Here's what happened.

Tesla owner Mike Nelson has been using the AI chatbot Grok in his vehicle for several months now. He finds it is useful, nearly irresistible, and dangerous. Nelson, a lawyer with a background in auto ...
The Atlantic

AI’s Next Frontier: People Skills

Earlier this year, when I walked into a renovated loft in downtown San Francisco, the couches and tables were littered with flyers advertising an “emotionally intelligent real-time AI coach.” They ...