Billy Perrigo

1 week ago | time.com | Billy Perrigo

Once again, Sam Altman wants to show you the future. The CEO of OpenAI is standing on a sparse stage in San Francisco, preparing to reveal his next move to an attentive crowd. “We needed some way for identifying, authenticating humans in the age of AGI,” Altman explains, referring to artificial general intelligence. “We wanted a way to make sure that humans stayed special and central.” The solution Altman came up with is looming behind him.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Billy Perrigo

7 hours agoThese 10 Windows 11 keyboard shortcuts will boost your productivityStreamline your workflow and save time every day. Keyboard shortcuts are efficiency’s greatest secret weapon. Yes, they can take a bit to learn and yes, sometimes you’ve got to—gasp!—take your hand off your mouse to reach all the keys.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Billy Perrigo

A smartphone displaying the logo of Claude, an AI language model developed by Anthropic. Credit - Cheng Xin/Getty ImagesToday’s newest AI models might be capable of helping would-be terrorists create bioweapons or engineer a pandemic, according to the chief scientist of the AI company Anthropic. Anthropic has long been warning about these risks—so much so that in 2023, the company pledged to not release certain models until it had developed safety measures capable of constraining them.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Billy Perrigo

Credit - Getty Images/iStockphoto—Andrea DantiTwo Evangelical Christian leaders sent an open letter to President Trump on Wednesday, warning of the dangers of out-of-control artificial intelligence and of automating human labor. The letter comes just weeks after the new Pope, Leo XIV, declared he was concerned with the “defense of human dignity, justice and labor” amid what he described as the “new industrial revolution” spurred by advances in AI.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Billy Perrigo

Credit - Elias Williams—Guardian/eyev/ReduxIn 2018, journalist and author Anand Giridharadas changed the national conversation about big-donor philanthropy with his best-selling book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. In it, he argued that elites use philanthropy to justify their unjustifiable wealth, casting themselves as part of the solution to the world’s problems even as their actions reinforce the status quo.