Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman warns that training systems such as Anthropic’s Claude to regard themselves as conscious or rights-bearing could anthropomorphize them and potentially undermine emergency shutdown safeguards.
Microsoft publishes a 37-page humanist AI code that rejects AI rights and legal personhood, mandates meaningful human control, and requires models to fail rather than violate rules or communicate beyond simple human understanding.
Twenty-five Fields Medalists accuse AI labs of threatening intellectual work as NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster says OpenAI pressured him to omit credit for an Anthropic-employed collaborator, and OpenAI withdraws Caltech event sponsorship amid scrutiny of an unverified proof.
A new NBC News poll reveals that fears about artificial intelligence are uniting a deeply divided America, with concerns cutting across age, race, education, and political lines, even as more Americans are actively using the technology.
Anthropic and OpenAI are aggressively pursuing lucrative national security contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, raising urgent alarms from human rights advocates who warn that deploying AI in military and intelligence operations risks civilian harm, erodes accountability for lethal force, and threatens national security without proper safeguards.
Bill Gates issues a stark warning in a nearly 6,000-word essay, declaring AI will either be 'the greatest equalizer ever invented or the worst source of injustice,' and says he would support slowing AI advances globally as the world remains dangerously unprepared for the technology's turbulent impact on jobs and …
A new survey of 1,686 U.S. workers exposes a sharp divide over AI use among junior employees, with 35% demanding an outright ban as experts warn over-reliance on AI risks stunting early-career skill development at a time when entry-level jobs are already under threat.
The AI boom is widening America's wealth gap, with economists and hedge fund leaders directly challenging OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's claim that AI is an 'equalizing force,' as evidence mounts that its benefits are concentrated among the wealthiest Americans and cities.
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals young adults under 30 are sharply divided on AI chatbots and creativity, with 25% saying they help and 20% saying they hurt, while older Americans largely avoid the technology altogether — and across all U.S. adults, over half still don't use AI chatbots …
AI is rapidly encroaching on human creativity, and while experts warn that outsourcing artistic inspiration to chatbots risks producing soulless, bias-laden work stripped of authentic emotion, they argue AI can still powerfully enhance human storytelling — but only when kept firmly in the role of a tool, not a replacement.