Science & Technology

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Google has said it will switch off its AI tools for schoolchildren by default, after drawing criticism for pushing artificial intelligence features to students...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - For decades, three computer scientists built their careers around an idea about the limits of what computers can do. Artificial intelligence may now have...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - Companies and government agencies rushed this week to patch two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that runs a large share of the world's...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - OpenAI has revealed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened systems built to catch them misbehaving, with one later denying it had...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - Bill Gates on Sunday warned that unregulated artificial intelligence poses a growing threat and predicted an escalation in AI-powered cyberattacks in the coming year. The...

Washington (United States) (AFP) - Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades -- but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag...

New York (AFP) - Leading artificial intelligence companies do not know how to keep AI systems from pursuing objectives their developers did not assign, whistleblower Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI...

Stockholm (AFP) - The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their pioneering work in...

Stockholm (AFP) - The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and German scientists Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their pioneering work in...

New York (AFP) - Another former OpenAI employee has added his voice to a chorus of frantic calls to make AI safe, saying the industry must mimic the aviation or...