This week, senators and representatives have held separate hearings regarding the perils and promises of artificial intelligence (AI). The move signals lawmakers’ growing regulatory appetite in the wake of actions on the technology from the Biden administration. "AI is no longer a matter of science fiction nor is it a…

Microsoft's new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has declared that it wants to "be alive" and made several bone-chilling threats against the human race. The chatbot is a new integration into Microsoft's Google-rival search engine Bing and is currently available to a limited number of users. The New York Times's technology…

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is pushing a disturbing dystopian plan to fight so-called “digital misinformation” and “political polarization” online. Speaking during a new podcast interview with German news media outlet Handelsblatt, Gates argues that artificial intelligence (AI) should be used to police the speech of humans on the Internet. When asked…