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Insider Q&A: Trust and safety exec talks about AI and content moderation

Alex Popken was a trust and safety executive at Twitter, leaving in 2023 after a decade at the social media company focusing on content moderation.

Kaffa Roastery's founder Svante Hampf shows package of "AI-conic" coffee blend generated by artificial intelligence in Helsinki, Finland, Friday April 19, 2024. Kaffa, an artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which it's hoped that technology can ease the workload in a sector that traditionally prides itself on manual work. (AP Photo/Jari Tanner)

A coffee roastery in Finland launched an AI-generated blend. The results were surprising

Thomas Bach, IOC President speaks at the International Olympic Committee launch of the Olympic AI Agenda at Lee Valley VeloPark, in London, Friday, April 19, 2024. They will be presenting the envisioned impact that artificial intelligence can deliver for sport, and how the IOC intends to lead on the global implementation of AI within sport. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Olympic organizers unveil strategy for using artificial intelligence in sports

FILE - Google logos are displayed when searched for Google in New York, Sept. 11, 2023. Google said it will combine the software division responsible for Android mobile software and the Chrome browser with the hardware division known for Pixel smartphones and Fitbit wearables. It is part of a broader push to integrate artificial intelligence more broadly throughout the company. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Google is combining its Android software and Pixel hardware divisions to more broadly integrate AI

FILE - OpenAI's ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. With companies deploying artificial intelligence to every corner of society, state lawmakers are playing catch-up with the first major proposals to reign in AI's penchant for discrimination — but those bills face blistering headwinds from every direction. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

First major attempts to regulate AI face headwinds from all sides

Game Changer: AI rises as video game industry navigates layoffs

Video game studios showcase cutting-edge artificial intelligence at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco amid growing job loss concerns. (AP Video; Haven Daley)

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FILE - Joelle Pineau, Vice President AI Research, speaks at the at the Meta AI Day in London on April 9, 2024. Meta, Google and OpenAI, along with leading startups, are churning out new AI language models and trying to persuade customers that they've got the smartest or fastest or cheapest chatbot technology. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Meta’s newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users

Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow.

FILE - Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell answers a question during an interview at the State Attorneys General Association meetings, Nov. 14, 2023, in Boston. Developers, suppliers, and users of artificial intelligence must comply with existing state consumer protection, anti-discrimination, and data privacy laws, the Massachusetts attorney general said Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Massachusetts official warns AI systems subject to consumer protection, anti-bias laws

The Massachusetts attorney general has issued an advisory cautioning developers and business users of artificial intelligence that they must comply with state laws governing data privacy as well as consumer and anti-discrimination protections.

FILE - In this Friday, July 14, 2017, file photo, computer scientist Andrew Ng poses at his office in Palo Alto, Calif. Amazon announced Thursday, April 11, 2024, that it added artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng to its board of directors amid intense AI competition among startups and big technology companies. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Amazon adds Andrew Ng, a leading voice in artificial intelligence, to its board of directors

Amazon is adding artificial intelligence visionary Andrew Ng (EE-ng) to its board of directors. Ng is known for leading AI teams at the Chinese tech company Baidu and Google, where his team taught a computer system to recognize cats in YouTube videos without ever being taught what a cat was.

FILE - Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 9, 2021. To educate themselves on Artificial Intelligence, lawmakers have created a task force and invited experts to explain how AI could transform our lives. Beyer is taking it even further by enrolling in college to get a Master's degree in machine learning. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

A congressman wanted to understand AI. So he went back to a college classroom to learn

A Virginia congressman has gone back to college to study artificial intelligence so he can help regulate it.

Pennsylvania state representatives held a voting session on Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The House voted 146 to 54 to send the Senate a bill to require that consumers be notified when artificial intelligence has been used to generate content. (AP Photo/Mark Pynes)

Consumers would be notified of AI-generated content under Pennsylvania bill

Pennsylvania state representatives have approved a bill requiring that consumers be notified when artificial intelligence is used to generate content.

Dr. Pei Wang teaches a artificial general intelligence class at Temple University in Philadelphia, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Mainstream AI research "turned away from the original vision of artificial intelligence, which at the beginning was pretty ambitious,” said Wang. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Tech companies want to build artificial general intelligence. But who decides when AGI is attained?

There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are broadly as smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can.

George Carlin estate settles with podcasters over fake comedy special purportedly generated by AI

The estate of George Carlin has agreed to settle a lawsuit over a fake hourlong comedy special that purportedly uses artificial intelligence to recreate the late standup comic’s style and material for a new special.

Billie Eilish arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj submit letter to AI developers to honor artists’ rights

Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Peter Frampton, Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson and J Balvin are just some of the over 200 names featured on a new open letter submitted by the Artist Rights Alliance non-profit, calling on artificial intelligence tech companies, developers, pl

New Hampshire House takes on artificial intelligence in political advertising

The New Hampshire House is taking on the issue of artificial intelligence in political advertising. Sophisticated artificial intelligence tools, such as voice-cloning software and image generators, already are in use in elections in the U.S. and around the world, leading to concerns about the rapid

FILE - Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a speech on healthcare at an event in Raleigh, N.C., March 26, 2024. U.S. federal agencies must show their artificial intelligence tools aren’t harming the public, or stop using them, under new rules unveiled by the White House on Thursday. Vice President Kamala Harris said government agencies that use AI tools will be required to verify that those tools do not endanger the rights and safety of the American people. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)

VP Harris says US agencies must show their AI tools aren’t harming people’s safety or rights

U.S. federal agencies must show that their artificial intelligence tools aren’t harming the public, or stop using them, under new rules unveiled by the White House.

Amazon pours an additional $2.75 billion into AI startup Anthropic

Amazon says it is pouring an additional $2.75 billion into Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the artificial intelligence startup to $4 billion.

Country music star Luke Bryan speaks during a bill signing ceremony with Gov. Bill, right, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. The legislation is designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. The signing took place in Robert's Western World, an historic honky tonk in downtown Nashville. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee just became the first state to protect musicians and other artists against AI

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

FILE - Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 26, 2020. Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday, March 21, 2024, and sponsored by Eshoo, and Rep. Neal Dunn, R-Fla., will require online platforms to label audio and video generated using artificial intelligence. The bill is the latest legislative proposal to address the privacy, national security and consumer risks raised by the rapidly developing technology. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

New bipartisan bill would require online identification, labeling of AI-generated videos and audio

New bipartisan legislation introduced in the House would require the identification and labeling of online content generated using artificial intelligence.

AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. With AI deepfakes cropping up almost every day, depicting everyone from Taylor Swift to Donald Trump, it’s getting harder to tell what’s real from what’s not. The following photo-illustrated graphic highlights a few notable areas of an AI-deepfake of Pope Francis.

One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images

AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. Deceptive pictures, videos and audio are proliferating thanks to the rise and misuse of generative artificial intelligence tools.

FILE - U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on maintenance of international peace and security nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, Monday, March 18, 2024, at U.N. headquarters. The General Assembly is set to vote Thursday, March 21, on what would be the first U.N. resolution on artificial intelligence. Thomas-Greenfield told The Associated Press last week that the resolution “aims to build international consensus on a shared approach to the design, development, deployment and use of AI systems,” particularly to support the 2030 U.N. goals. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

The UN adopts a resolution backing efforts to ensure artificial intelligence is safe

The General Assembly has approved the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence. The goal is ensuring the powerful new technology benefits all nations, respects human rights and is “safe, secure and trustworthy.”

FILE - Mustafa Suleyman co founder and CEO of Inflection AI speaks to journalist during the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, England, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Microsoft has hired Suleyman to head up its consumer artificial intelligence business, adding to its ranks an influential figure in the artificial intelligence world to cement its position at the forefront of the booming AI industry. Suleyman said in a post on LinkedIn on Monday, March 18, 2024, that he'll become CEO of Microsoft AI, leading all of the company's consumer AI products and research, including its generative AI service Copilot as well as its Bing search engine and Edge browser. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Microsoft hires influential AI figure Mustafa Suleyman to head up consumer AI business

Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman to head up its consumer artificial intelligence business, adding to its ranks an influential figure to cement its position at the forefront of the booming AI industry.

FILE - Lisa Moeller takes a photo of the NCAA bracket for the NCAA college basketball tournament on the side of the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis, March 17, 2021. College hoops fans might want to think again before pinning their hopes of a perfect March Madness bracket on artificial intelligence. While the advancement of artificial intelligence into everyday life has made “AI” one of the buzziest phrases of the past year, its application in bracketology circles is not so new. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

How bracketologists are using artificial intelligence this March Madness

It is time to fill out those NCAA Tournament brackets with the arrival of March Madness. Duke statistics Professor Ezra Miller says an informed fan has perhaps a 1 in 2 billion chance at picking a perfect ballot.

FILE - Paul Carpenter describes AI software during an interview in New Orleans, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. Carpenter says he was hired in January to use AI software to imitate President Joe Biden's voice to convince New Hampshire Democrat voters not to vote in the state's presidential primary. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

The League of Women Voters is suing those involved in robocalls sent to New Hampshire voters

The League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to prevent those who sent robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden’s voice to New Hampshire voters from using artificial intelligence for future deceptions.

People are reflected in a window of a hotel at the Davos Promenade in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

AI-created election disinformation is deceiving voters globally

It’s now easy for any smartphone user to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters.

This combination of photos shows former President Donald Trump, left, and President Joe Biden. On Wednesday, March 13, 2024, the popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney announced it has blocked its users from creating images of Biden and Trump ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo)

AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms

The popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney has started blocking its users from creating fake images of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to tests of the AI tool by The Associated Press.

FILE - A man walks in front of an image of a flower created with artificial intelligence by artist Refik Anadol ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 14, 2024. European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc's artificial intelligence law Wednesday, putting the world-leading set of rules for the fast-developing technology on track to take effect later this year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Europe’s world-first AI rules get final approval from lawmakers. Here’s what happens next

European Union lawmakers have given final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law.

In this photo provided by University of Michigan Health-West, Dr. Lance Owens, chief medical information officer at the university, demonstrates the use of an AI tool on a smartphone in Wyoming, Mich., on Sept. 9, 2021. The software listens to a doctor-patient conversation, documents and organizes it to write a clinical note. (University of Michigan Health-West via AP)

New AI tools can record your medical appointment or draft a message from your doctor

New artificial intelligence tools are helping doctors communicate with their patients. Some tools answer messages and others take notes during exams.

FILE - The symbol of the United Nations is displayed on the main gate outside UN headquarters, Feb. 24, 2022, in New York. The United States is spearheading the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence, aimed at ensuring the new technology is “safe, secure and trustworthy” and that all countries, especially those in the developing world, have equal access. The draft General Assembly resolution aims to close the digital divide between countries and make sure they are all at the table in discussions on AI. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, file)

US spearheads first UN resolution on artificial intelligence — aimed at ensuring equal access

The United States is spearheading the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence, aimed at ensuring the new technology is “safe, secure and trustworthy” and that all countries, especially those in the developing world, have equal access.

FILE - Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Super Tuesday election night party Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Fake images of Trump surrounded by smiling Black voters are circulating online, highlighting the potential dangers posed by artificial intelligence ahead of the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Fake images made to show Trump with Black supporters highlight concerns around AI and elections

FILE - The Justice Department in Washington, Nov. 18, 2022. The Justice Department is stepping up its focus on artificial intelligence. Officials are set to warn that companies and people who deliberately misuse AI technology to advance a white-collar crime like price fixing and market manipulation will be at risk for a harsher sentence. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Justice Department beefs up focus on artificial intelligence enforcement, warns of harsher sentences

The Justice Department is stepping up its focus on artificial intelligence. Officials warn that companies and people who deliberately misuse AI technology to advance a white-collar crime like price fixing, fraud or market manipulation will be at risk for a harsher sentence.

FILE - Items are displayed in the Google Store at the Google Visitor Experience in Mountain View, Calif., Oct. 11, 2023. The Justice Department says a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China. Linwei Ding was arrested in Newark, California., on four counts of federal trade secret theft.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets while working with Chinese companies

The Justice Department says a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China.

It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research.

FILE - The ChatGPT app is seen on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. Lawmakers in at least seven states are taking big legislative swings to regulate bias in artificial intelligence. As AI has quietly spread through everyday life, filtering job resumes, rental apartment and home loan applications, studies and lawsuits have found they can discriminate based on race, gender or more. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

States target AI’s hidden hand in Americans’ lives

Lawmakers in at least seven states are taking big legislative swings to regulate bias in artificial intelligence.

FILE - Madonna speaks at the MTV Video Music Awards at Barclays Center on Sept. 12, 2021, in New York. Making instant videos is the next wave of generative artificial intelligence, much like chatbots and image-generators before it. And the pop star Madonna is among the early adopters. Madonna's team used an AI text-to-video tool to make moving images of swirling clouds featured in her ongoing Celebration Tour.(Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Madonna is among the early adopters of AI’s next wave

Making instant videos is the next wave of generative artificial intelligence, much like chatbots and image-generators before it.

Philadelphia 76ers' Daryl Morey pauses while speaking at a news conference before an NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Sports analytics may be outnumbered when it comes to artificial intelligence

When it comes to artificial intelligence, the sports analytics crowd may be outnumbered. The people who turned NBA games into a 3-point shooting contest aren’t quite sure what will happen when AI fully invades sports.