Don’t believe the AI hype that claims it makes war safer

Don’t believe the AI hype that claims it makes war safer

There’s been a lot of hype, often pushed by Western nations, that AI-enabled warfare is more targeted. I spoke to Brian Merchant at the Los Angeles Times about this in the context of Israel’s war against Gaza: “The mistake has been, in the last two weeks, saying this was an intelligence failure. It wasn’t, it…

The AI “revolution” is piracy for authors

The AI “revolution” is piracy for authors

I recently discovered that some of my books are being used illegally to “train” AI models: This story in Books + Publishing explains what’s at stake: The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has responded to the large-scale unauthorised use of books by Australian authors in a dataset used to train generative artificial intelligence. The training…

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