artificial intelligence

A deep hole dug from layers of paper covered with text. The layers of paper are of alternating colors.

AI-generated text is hard to spot. It could play a big role in the 2024 campaign

4:10pm June 29, 2023

by Huo Jingnan

Recent research shows how generative AI could make effective and cost efficient propaganda. It's difficult to detect AI-generated text, raising concerns about the 2024 election.

Tessa was a chatbot originally designed by researchers to help prevent eating disorders. The National Eating Disorders Association had hoped Tessa would be a resource for those seeking information, but the chatbot was taken down when artificial intelligence-related capabilities, added later on, caused the chatbot to provide weight loss advice.

Health & Safety

An eating disorders chatbot offered dieting advice, raising fears about AI in health

9:20pm June 08, 2023

by Kate Wells

The National Eating Disorders Association took down a controversial chatbot, after users showed how the newest version could dispense potentially harmful advice about dieting and calorie counting.

A recent video from Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis includes an image with three fake photos of former President Donald Trump and Dr. Anthony Fauci hugging. These three images appear to be AI-generated.

Politics & Government

DeSantis campaign shares apparent AI-generated fake images of Trump and Fauci

5:07pm June 08, 2023

by Shannon Bond

It's the latest example of how generative AI tools enable politicians to blur the line between fact and fiction.

U.S Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley salutes during a D-Day anniversary ceremony at the American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France on Tuesday.

The U.S.' top general reflects on the changing face of war, 79 years after D-Day

2:37pm June 06, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, marked the D-Day anniversary in Normandy this week. He spoke to NPR about the modernization of warfare and what AI might mean for the future.

Queue Listen Now

It's still early days for AI in health care, but already racial bias has been found in some of the tools. Here, health care professionals at a hospital in California protest racial injustice after the murder of George Floyd.

Health & Safety

AI in medicine needs to be carefully deployed to counter bias – and not entrench it

11:29am June 06, 2023

Powerful new artificial intelligence tools can perpetuate long-standing racial inequities if they are not designed very carefully. Researchers and regulators are taking note, but perils are vast.

An aerial view of The Pentagon on May 10, 2023. Images that purported to show smoke rising from the headquarters of the U.S. armed forces appear to have been generated by artificial intelligence tools.

Politics & Government

Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI

6:19pm May 22, 2023

by Shannon Bond

Authorities quickly confirmed that no explosion had taken place but the faked images spread on Twitter for a short time. The incident briefly sent the stock market lower.

Genetics, gut microbes and other lifestyle and environmental factors can impact how people's bodies react to food. An NIH study aims to find out how.

Our bodies respond differently to food. A new study aims to find out how

10:27am May 19, 2023

by Allison Aubrey

The NIH will track the diets and lifestyles of 10,000 people to see how genetics, biology and the microbiome impact people's health. The study will use AI to tailor individual diet advice.

Elon Musk speaking to journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at a conference in 2016. Musk's lawyers recently tried to argue in court that comments he made at that event could have been altered.

People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes. The courts are not amused

4:12pm May 08, 2023

by Shannon Bond

The unleashing of powerful, generative AI on the public is raising concerns that as the technology becomes more prevalent, it will become easier to claim that anything is fake.

This company adopted AI. Here's what happened to its human workers

7:42am May 02, 2023

by Greg Rosalsky

A group of economists conducted one of the first empirical studies of "generative AI" at a real-world company. They found it had big effects.

Michael Schumacher, pictured at a press conference in Brazil in 2006, hasn't spoken publicly since suffering a near-fatal head injury in 2013.

World News

A magazine touted Michael Schumacher's first interview in years. It was actually AI

5:07am April 28, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

F1 champion Michael Schumacher hasn't spoken publicly since suffering a near-fatal head injury in 2013. Die Aktuelle fired its editor over the AI-generated piece, and Schumacher's family plans to sue.