Posts by Karen C. Schiavone

In our last article, A How-To Guide on Acquiring AI Systems, we explained why the IEEE P3119 Standard for the Procurement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automated Decision Systems (ADS) is needed. In this article,…

Voice cloning—in which AI is used to create fake yet realistic-sounding speech—has its benefits, such as generating synthetic voices for people with speech impairments. But the technology also has plenty of malicious uses:…

Last December, the AI Institute announced that it was opening an office in Zurich as a European counterpart to its Boston headquarters and recruited Marco Hutter to helm the office. Hutter also runs the Robotic…

THE MENTAL-HEALTH APP WOEBOT launched in 2017, back when “chatbot” wasn’t a familiar term and someone seeking a therapist could only imagine talking to a human being. Woebot was something exciting and…

Holden previously mentioned the idea that advanced AI systems (e.g. PASTA) may develop dangerous goals that cause them to deceive or disempower humans. This might sound like a pretty out-there concern. Why would we program AI…

We’re all still coming to grips with the exciting possibilities of Generative AI (GenAI) as a technology that can create realistic and novel content, such as images, text, audio, and…