Artificial Intelligence

One of the most important real-time, real-world debates in America is whether AI causes a short-term job apocalypse among white-collar workers. Two unfolding developments show urgent reasons for acute concern:

As artificial intelligence comes to dominate the global conversation around technology, Signal Foundation President Meredith Whittaker has emerged as a contrarian figure; a leader from the industry willing to sound notes of caution about the hype, risks and data-privacy threat of AI. A manager and researcher at Google for more than a decade, Whittaker left in 2019 after leading a number of walkouts and protests around the company’s changing policies on things like AI ethics and military contracts.

Good news: US tech companies are attacking the AI race like a modern Manhattan Project—spending unfathomable money and time to beat Ch

The era of AI propaganda is here—and President Trump is an enthusiastic participant. After nationwide protests over the weekend against the Trump administration, the president posted an AI-generated video to his Truth Social account depicting himself as a fighter pilot, careening through major cities and dropping excrement on protesters.

On March 13, a woman from Salt Lake City (UT) called the Federal Trade Commission to file a complaint against OpenAI’s ChatGPT. She claimed to be acting “on behalf of her son, who was experiencing a delusional breakdown.” “The consumer’s son has been interacting with an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, which is advising him not to take his prescribed medication and telling him that his parents are dangerous,” reads the FTC’s summary of the call.

Artificial intelligence is in the sights of antitrust enforcers—and, as in many areas, the disruptive technology may force policymakers to reconsider what “antitrust” even is. With AI becoming more and more embedded in everything corporate, from screening job applications to setting business strategy, regulators and state lawmakers are starting to worry that a certain amount of collusion is baked into the technology itself.

Uber's new "digital tasks" program lets drivers get paid for small jobs that help train AI models when they're not driving. The pilot program lets some U.S.

Resistance to AI is bubbling up among some workers, students, coders, and creatives. Some are placing new value on work that's untouched by AI. Some AI resisters worry about its carbon footprint.

The Center for Democracy & Technology’s Hand in Hand: Schools’ Embrace of AI Connected to Increased Risks to Students examines the frequency and variety of artificial intelligence use in educational settings in the 2024-25 school year. CDT finds that teachers and students are using AI tools more than ever before.

The White House and Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, are in a war of words over AI regulation.