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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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We have the first precedent for the use of AI-generated audio in a commercial song. The song "U My Everything" by Sexy Red and Drake uses part of "BBL Drizzy" (listen below), a song generated by King Willonius using the AI tool Udio. Lawyer Donald Woodard tells Billboard that the original recording of the AI song "BBL Drizzy" is in the public domain, but that Willonius owns the copyright to the lyrics. He will receive an unknown share of the royalties. Lawyer Uwonda Carter says the ability to use AI music for free in the future could make music cheaper, but hurt "loop producers" who get a cut of the publishing money.

Just because AI music can likely be used free of charge and without copyright issues doesn't mean that AI music modelers won't face copyright lawsuits if they train their models on unlicensed material.

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Lovo, an AI company based in Berkeley, California, is being sued by voice actors Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage. They accuse the company of cloning their voices without permission to use them for commercial purposes. According to the lawsuit, Lehrman and Sage accepted contracts through the Fiverr platform to provide voice samples for academic research and internal radio testing, respectively. However, they later discovered their voices in YouTube videos and podcasts without having been hired to do so. The plaintiffs are seeking damages in excess of five million dollars and an injunction prohibiting Lovo from further using their voices.

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US Copyright Office says fair use does not cover AI trained on "vast troves of copyrighted works

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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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