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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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"Unlimited genius" for all: Altman's naive dream of AI equality

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Study warns: creeping AI development could lead to our 'gradual disempowerment'

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OpenAI and Microsoft may be in trouble

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Publishers and newspapers, including the New York Times, Reuters, and The Washington Post, are demanding compensation from generative AI websites like OpenAI's ChatGPT, which have been using their content to train AI models, the Washington Post reports. These organizations, at least 550, have installed a blocker to prevent their content from being used and are now negotiating terms for payment and increased web traffic. OpenAI previously licensed content from the Associated Press for training data.

Other data sources, such as Reddit, are also seeking payment for their content and are considering blocking search crawlers from Google and Bing. The push for compensation comes as the generative AI market is expected to reach $1.3 trillion by 2032. At the same time, leading AI companies are facing copyright lawsuits from book authors, artists, and software coders.

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In an interview with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio discussed the potential threats AI poses to humanity. Bengio, a Turing Award winner and founder of the Quebec AI institute Mila, believes that the development of artificial intelligence could outpace our ability to regulate it, posing a significant threat to democracy, national security, and our collective future. He suggests that the creation of an organization to defend humanity could help mitigate these risks. Bengio also warns against the concentration of AI power in a few companies, which could lead to economic dominance and potential political control.

Time is of the essence, and regulation can reduce the probabilities of catastrophes or, equivalently, push back the time when something really bad is going to happen. Or minimize the amplitude of what may happen.

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Google has urged a California federal court to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the company's data scraping for generative AI violates privacy and property rights. The tech giant defended its use of public data to train systems like its Bard chatbot, claiming that the lawsuit would "take a sledgehammer to not only Google's services, but the very idea of generative AI," and that "using publicly available information to learn is not stealing." The lawsuit was filed by eight individuals in July, accusing Google of misusing content from social media and Google platforms to train AI. Google's general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, called the lawsuit "baseless" and said U.S. law supports using public information for new beneficial uses.

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OpenAI and Anthropic raise alarm over China's Deepseek in warnings to US government

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Google's new AI mode for search might turn the Web into a World Wide Wasteland

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Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid AI model and Claude Code programming tool

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