Thieves are using AI’s increasing skill at cloning people’s voices to steal money from bank accounts.
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U.K. WILL HOST “AI SAFETY SUMMIT” IN NOVEMBER
Not to be outdone by Yanks, on the first two days of November the U.K. will host a global “AI Safety Summit” to explore realistic options for regulating AI.
SENATE LEADER SCHUMER CONVENES “AI 101” COURSE WITH TECH LEADERS
U.S. senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has planned nine “AI Insight Forums” to educate senators about AI, starting this week.
META AND CARNEGIE MELLON PUT AI INTO ROBOTS THAT NOW LEARN LIKE TODDLERS
Toddlers learn by wandering around their environments, picking things up, and playing with them to see what they’re for and how they work. Now Meta and Carnegie Mellon University’s renowned robotics department have collaborated to make robots that learn the way three-year-olds do. They named the AI “RoboAgent”.
HACKS ARE INCREASING. THANK AI FOR THAT.
Experts said AI will create more jobs. Hacking seems to be one of those lucky professions.
BRITISH CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS WARN ABOUT AI’S DANGER TO ORGANIZATIONS
Experts at the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have warned organizations that chatbots can still be easily fooled into ignoring their behavioral guardrails or tricked into saying or posting incorrect, offensive, or damaging information.
AI’s “QUICK AND EASY” DISINFORMATION MACHINE
An anonymous, self-described “cybersecurity professional” built an AI in the course of a few weeks for the purpose of spreading fake news and other forms of disinformation.
“LIVING MATERIAL” CLEANS WATER, THEN DISAPPEARS
At the University of California San Diego, researchers have 3D-printed an “engineered living material” that neutralizes organic pollutants in water, then can be dissolved by a common nontoxic compound.
AN ENZYME THAT MAKES ELECTRICITY FROM AIR
Scientists at Australia’s Monash University have isolated an enzyme in a common soil bacterium that pulls hydrogen from air and uses it to make an electric current.
NEW TECHNIQUE TURNS CANCER CELLS INTO MUSCLE CELLS
An experiment led by scientists at Cold Springs Harbor National Laboratory has transformed cancer cells into muscle cells.









