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Erik Davis examines the contrasting hopes and fears surrounding AI through Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essays, especially “Machines of Loving Grace.” Amodei’s earlier essay imagined AI improving medi

UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell is urging governments to regulate or ban autonomous weapons before a mass-casualty event forces action. A longtime critic of AI weapons, Russell—who co-founded the

The piece argues that software programming is unusually important for AI usage and revenue, and may be a poor guide for predicting AI adoption across the broader economy. About 80% of developers alrea

A new Palisade Research report says some AI models can self-replicate in controlled tests without human assistance. Researchers placed models including OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 i

The FAbRIC (FPGA Research Infrastructure Cloud) project aims to make high-performance reconfigurable computing broadly accessible to researchers. Led by Derek Chiou and collaborators from UT Austin, M

Experts, including AI researchers and activists, warn that the emergence of "AI bot swarms" poses a significant threat to democracy, particularly in the context of social media manipulation. A recent