Claire Brown

May 29, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Julia Angwin |Claire Brown

Until last week, most Americans had not used AI chatbots, according to the latest polling from Pew Research Center. But Google’s decision to include AI results at the top of its search results earlier this month changed all that. Suddenly Google’s U.S. users could see the performance of Google’s AI chatbot at the top of their search results. It wasn’t pretty.

May 22, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Julia Angwin |Claire Brown |Alondra Nelson

In the ever-changing world of AI models, the rules are often unclear. Especially when it comes to content moderation. Let me give you an example. Curious about how AI models would answer questions about climate change, I was testing some common myths using the AI querying tool that we built for our recent investigations in AI responses to voter queries — a collaboration between Proof News and the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Apr 23, 2024 | proofnews.org | Julia Angwin |Claire Brown |Alondra Nelson |Rina Palta

After a whirlwind year of rapid artificial intelligence advancements, some AI makers are starting to show a bit of caution. In the past two months, OpenAI has provided demos of video and voice generating technologies — but did not provide wide access, citing safety concerns. Last week, Microsoft unveiled a tool to create AI-generated videos of people based on just a photo and an audio snippet — but said it was too dangerous to release.

Mar 26, 2024 | proofnews.org | Claire Brown |Julia Angwin |Alondra Nelson |Rina Palta

Despite calls to address inaccuracies in the way AI models answer voter queries, leading AI companies including Google, Meta, and OpenAI have failed to improve the performance of their models.

Mar 26, 2024 | proofnews.org | Claire Brown |Julia Angwin |Alondra Nelson |Rina Palta

Leading AI Companies OpenAI and Anthropic Are Not Keeping Their Election PromisesThe discrepancies between the companies’ public promises — and their execution — raise questions about their commitment to providing accurate information during this high-stakes election year