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Artificial Intelligence is a key technology that can help us solve major societal challenges such as climate change, energy supply, healthcare, education or logistics. AI can solve specific problems more effectively by supporting us in decision-making, automating solutions and thus scaling them, or discovering completely new solutions. But the use of AI also poses new risks, for example when it comes to surveillance or questions of social justice.

What is our society doing with AI – and what is AI doing to our society? We shed light on this question in our AI and Society Content Hub.

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US think tank warns of "reverse brain drain" in China's AI sector

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Researchers used AI to manipulate Reddit users, scrapped study after backlash

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xAI alters Grok chatbot to shield Elon Musk from misinformation claims

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OpenAI is investing $50 million in "NextGenAI," a new consortium bringing together 15 research institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Oxford. The funding will support research fellowships, computing resources, and API access for participating organizations. Each institution is pursuing different applications of AI technology. Ohio State University is focusing on digital health and manufacturing projects, while Harvard and Boston Children's Hospital are working to reduce diagnosis times for rare diseases. Texas A&M is building an initiative to improve AI literacy, and Oxford University is using AI to digitize rare texts and make them searchable. The consortium builds on OpenAI's previous educational initiative ChatGPT Edu.

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Figure AI plans to begin testing its humanoid household robots this year, moving up its timeline by two years, according to CEO Brett Adcock. He credits this acceleration to its new AI system called "Helix," which combines visual perception, speech, language understanding, and motor control into a single AI model. Helix allows the robots to handle and manipulate everyday objects without requiring specific programming or training for each item. Figure AI recently ended its collaboration with OpenAI on AI models, and is developing Helix independently on an open source basis.

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Following the recent AI Action Summit in Paris, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says Europe's plans for AI need "greater focus and urgency" to address the rapid changes ahead. While the EU Commission recently unveiled several initiatives, including the €200 billion "InvestAI" program, Amodei suggests these efforts might not match the pace of AI development. "While AI has the potential to dramatically accelerate economic growth throughout the world, it also has the potential to be highly disruptive," he explains. Amodei advocates for policies "focused on ensuring that everyone shares in the economic benefits of very powerful AI," and monitoring the economic impact of today's AI systems.

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