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The winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics warns of Silicon Valley’s fascist drift and says that if Trump wins the midterm elections, it will be the end of American democracy

The risk is no longer just traditional hoaxes, but the large-scale automation of political manipulation

The university’s business school and Imperial College London create AI digital replicas of some of their professors. Concerns center mainly on intellectual property and the fear that AI will attribute words to them they do not agree with

RentAHuman allows artificial intelligence agents to offer payments for tasks they cannot perform, although its success is symbolic for now

EL PAÍS analyzed 175 popular titles using the Pangram detector. There was no trace of AI in 2019, but now one in three self-published bestsellers is written mostly with artificial intelligence, including a top-charting book by Spanish politician Alvise Pérez

Experts foresee more qualitative changes than quantitative ones despite the industry’s own catastrophic predictions, and they warn of rising inequality, with a gap ‘between top‑tier jobs with multimillion dollar paychecks and low‑level jobs with miserable wages’

The Mexican president accelerates a reform to penalize the use of fake videos featuring government officials, while the Italian prime minister trademarks her voice with EU intellectual property agency

Bill Gates supports taxing the technology as progressive proposals grow to make new models make up for job destruction and other impacts

A moment on the White House lawn next to Donald Trump can feel eternal: the president humiliated some of the planet’s richest and most powerful figures

On November 30, 2022, the day ChatGPT was launched, Sadin couldn’t sleep a wink. The French philosopher, a leading voice in the resistance against runaway technological change, believes that artificial intelligence is a catastrophe that should have been banned: it threatens creativity, talent, and intellect — the very foundations of human civilization

This summer a swarm of agents did what no one had asked. And the explanation hides an uncomfortable idea: machine intelligence and its dangers emerge from the same place

The Baltic country’s minister of education proposes ‘redesigning the learning process, taking into account that students are already using AI at home’

The program has caused a literary stir in France after it was used to identify a bestselling book as produced with artificial intelligence

The panic over the possible loss of control of this technology diverts attention from other issues, such as PISA results or the (human) responsibility for artificial intelligence’s actions

Awareness of the extraordinary dangers of the technology is fueling a growing, multifaceted movement of opposition and sabotage against it