List of AI articles
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AI-geopolitics-cooperation-nonproliferation-foreign-policy-illustration-erik-carter-3-2 The Year Policymakers Woke Up to AI
Artificial intelligence became more than just a buzzword in 2023.
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An illustration shows a gavel cracking down on a digitized background of ones and zeroes for a story about regulating artificial intelligence. Why It’s So Hard to Regulate AI
The world may need new rulebooks for the rapidly evolving technology.
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An illustration of an ominous gas mask on a green background with programming code replacing the eyes Can Chatbots Help You Build a Bioweapon?
Artificial intelligence can help users engineer pathogens—but that’s not the real danger.
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U.S. President Joe Biden, wearing a black suit and sunglasses, is seen from behind as he listens to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as he stands at a podium and speaks into a microphone. The sky behind the men is blue, and the corner of a building is visible behind them. The U.S. Can’t Lead on Quantum Computing Alone
Winning the race to develop this critical technology will require a little help from friends.
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An attendee tries out a virtual-reality Meta Oculus Quest 2 headset during the Mobile World Congress, focused on artificial intelligence and other technology, in Barcelona, Spain, on March 3, 2022. Europe’s Tech Curbs Are a Double-Edged Sword
The continent’s eagerness to regulate global tech companies could backfire on its own.
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Five workers carrying baskets pick purple tea leaves on a plantation with hills in the background AI Will First Come for Women
Female workers may be at highest risk from the coming waves of automation.
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Pixelated tech lines cross the windows in front of people attending the Semicon Taiwan convention in Taipei. Biden Turns a Few More Screws on China’s Chip Industry
New export controls, a year after the first, are cautious but pack a punch.
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An illustration shows a data storage cloud over a semiconductor chip The Cloud Can Solve America’s AI Problems
Washington doesn’t have to restrict chip exports to control the technology’s future development.
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People look at Pangu AI weather models during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, on July 7. What the U.S. Can Learn From China About Regulating AI
Over the past two years, China has enacted some of the world’s earliest and most sophisticated rules for AI.
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Two adults wearing matching lanyards designating them as volunteers sit next to each other at a table with laptops in front of them. One of the volunteers leans to the side to look at the other's screen as he types. Behind the volunteers, other people sit at tables with laptops and phones. Inside the White House-Backed Effort to Hack AI
Hackers, students, and government officials gathered at DEF CON to push chatbots over the edge.
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Nathaniel Fick, the ambassador-at-large for the U.S. State Department, speaks to students during a recruitment event at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Why America Has a New Tech Ambassador
Nathaniel Fick on running the State Department’s new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
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Hands hold the Orb, a biometric imaging device for Worldcoin, which aims to create a World ID digital passport with a tradeable cryptocurrency, in Berlin on Aug. 1. Annegret Hilse/Reuters Sam Altman Has a Plan to Tame the AI He Unleashed
Worldcoin trades cryptocurrency for eyeball scans, creating a global ID database and scaring the willies out of privacy experts.
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A photo illustration shows the severed head of a Greek statue with cyber tech wires coming out of the opening of its neck for a story about AI tech regulation and the downfall of democracy. The AI Regulation Paradox
Regulating artificial intelligence to protect U.S. democracy could end up jeopardizing democracy abroad.
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, is guided by a four-legged robot as she arrives for the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva. It Was Set Up to Regulate Telegraphs. Now It’s Grappling With AI.
The U.N.’s oldest agency is taking on the world’s newest technology.
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A photorealistic illustration shows a semiconductor chip with a U.S. flag in the middle. Washington Can Lead on AI
Both the private and public sectors need to play a part.
