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FILE - The emblem of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is shown on a podium in Vail, Colo., Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in Denver. Charlotte Burrows, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, told The Associated Press, Thursday, May 18, 2023, that the agency is trying to educate employers and technology providers about their use of these surveillance tools as well as AI tools that streamline the work of evaluating job prospects. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Check your artificial intelligence ‘bossware’ tools for bias, says U.S. agency head
 
Rumman Chowdhury, co-founder of Humane Intelligence, a nonprofit developing accountable AI systems, poses for a photograph at her home Monday, May 8, 2023, in Katy, Texas. ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and other major AI providers such as Google and Microsoft, are coordinating with the Biden administration to let thousands of hackers take a shot at testing the limits of their technology. Chowdhury is the lead coordinator of the mass hacking event planned for this summer's DEF CON hacker convention in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Mass event will let hackers test limits of AI technology
Some of the things they’ll be looking to find: How can chatbots be manipulated to cause harm? Will they share the private information we confide in them to other users? And why do they assume a doctor is a man and a nurse is a woman?
 
File - Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton poses at Google's Mountain View, Calif, headquarters on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today's artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn't mean they agree on the risks or how to prevent disastrous outcomes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
Scientists warn of AI dangers but don’t agree on solutions
After retiring from Google so he could speak more freely, so-called Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton plans to outline his concerns Wednesday at a conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He’s already voiced regrets about his work and doubt about humanity’s survival if machines get sma
 
Microsoft’s ‘good guy’ approach frays in UK gaming battle
“This decision, I have to say, is probably the darkest day in our four decades in Britain,” the company’s president, Brad Smith, told BBC Radio 4. “It does more than shake our confidence in the future of the opportunity to grow a technology business in Britain than we’ve ever confronted before.”
 
FILE - The Activision Blizzard Booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, June 13, 2013. British regulators have blocked Microsoft's $69 billion deal to buy videogame maker Activision Blizzard over worries that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market.. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Explainer: Is Microsoft still buying Activision Blizzard?
A major setback came Wednesday when British antitrust regulators said they would block the acquisition.
 
US officials seek to crack down on harmful AI products
“We all know that in moments of technological disruption, established players and incumbents may be tempted to crush, absorb or otherwise unlawfully restrain new entrants in order to maintain their dominance,” Khan said at a virtual press event Tuesday. “And we already can see these risks. A handful
 
Insider Q&A: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on shepherding ChatGPT — Edit
Now its chief technology officer, Murati leads OpenAI’s research, product and safety teams. She’s led the development and launch of its AI models including ChatGPT, the image-generator DALL-E and the newest, GPT-4.