Literarisches & Journalistisches

Character.ai wurde als Plattform für KI-Gefährten populär, aber auch zum Ziel einer Serie von Klagen. Nun meldet das Unternehmen Insolvenz an.

OpenAI’s CEO seems to want to privatise his company’s huge financial gains while making all of us pay for any negative consequences, says author Chris Stokel-Walker

Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions

Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

In case you are looking for a cynical way of discussing the current LLM hype: LLMs are an interesting and occasionally very useful software technology that has been inflated into a supposed civilization-changing revolution because the tech industry desperately needs another enormous growth story—and the economic, intellectual and social costs of that inflation vastly exceed what the technology currently delivers.

KPMG’s study is the latest in a number of apparent AI hallucinations in reports by professional services firms.

Berlin arbeitet mit KI. Die Frage ist nicht mehr, ob solche Systeme in der Verwaltung ankommen, sondern wer ihren Einsatz steuert. Die Reihe „Berlin digital handlungsfähig machen“ greift vier Felder auf, an denen sich entscheidet, wie digitale Lösungen im Alltag der Verwaltung verlässlich eingesetzt werden können. Den Anfang macht der Umgang mit Künstlicher Intelligenz in der Verwaltung.

China, the U.S., Russia and others have ramped up their contest over artificial-intelligence-backed weapons and military systems. The buildup has been compared to the dawn of the nuclear weapons age

Weniger Depression, Angst, Einsamkeit, schon nach einer Woche Social-Media-Abstinenz: Das geht laut Gerichtsakten aus einer Studie hervor, die Meta abgebrochen hat. Der Konzern weist die Vorwürfe zurück.

Tech platforms, particularly social media giants, are facing intense scrutiny to be held accountable for fraud, with calls for liability for scams and deepfakes flourishing on their platforms. Critics argue that platforms profit from fraudulent advertisements, with some estimates suggesting up to 10% of revenue originates from scams, and urge that they be held legally and financially responsible for consumer losses.

Google hat es geschafft, mit KI-Antworten mehr Geld zu verdienen als mit der klassischen Suchmaschine. Kollateralschäden für das Web nimmt das Unternehmen dabei in Kauf.

Bruch mit Symbolkraft: Aus Angst vor Sanktionen ersetzt der Internationale Strafgerichtshof US-Technologie mit einem Paket aus Deutschland – und könnte damit am Beginn eines Trends stehen.

AI Factories leverage the supercomputing capacity of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to develop trustworthy cutting-edge generative AI models.

Cyberkriminelle nutzen künstliche Intelligenz für täuschend echte Stimmenkopien und QR-Code-Betrug. Die Schäden durch manipulierte Überweisungen...

OpenAI hat mit ChatGPT eine beeindruckende Marktführerschaft erlangt. Im Juli 2025 erreichte ChatGPT einen Marktanteil von 82.6 Prozent.

Rewiring Democracy How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship A Book by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders An informative and wide-ranging exploration of how AI will alter every facet of democracy, and how to harness the technology to distribute rather than concentrate power. AI will change democracy. The only question is how. AI’s impact on democracy will go far beyond headline-grabbing political deepfakes and automated misinformation. Everywhere it will be used, it will create risks and opportunities to shake up long-standing power structures...

Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversaries control a percentage of the training corpus. However, for large models, even small percentages translate to impractically large amounts of data. This work demonstrates for the first time that poisoning attacks instead require a near-constant number of documents regardless of dataset size. We conduct the largest pretraining poisoning experiments to date, pretraining models from 600M to 13B parameters on chinchilla-optimal datasets (6B to 260B tokens). We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes, despite the largest models training on more than 20 times more clean data. We also run smaller-scale experiments to ablate factors that could influence attack success, including broader ratios of poisoned to clean data and non-random distributions of poisoned samples. Finally, we demonstrate the same dynamics for poisoning during fine-tuning. Altogether, our results suggest that injecting backdoors through data poisoning may be easier for large models than previously believed as the number of poisons required does not scale up with model size, highlighting the need for more research on defences to mitigate this risk in future models.

Der Philosoph Curtis Yarvi wünscht sich einen amerikanischen Autokraten. Seine autoritären Ideen treffen den Nerv der Zeit - und beeinflussen etwa J.D. Vance.

Many have warned that the rapid expansion of data centres could slow down or even reverse the global shift towards net-zero.

The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored. This study investigates the relationship between AI tool usage and critical thinking skills, focusing on cognitive offloading as a mediating factor. Utilising a mixed-method approach, we conducted surveys and in-depth interviews with 666 participants across diverse age groups and educational backgrounds. Quantitative data were analysed using ANOVA and correlation analysis, while qualitative insights were obtained through thematic analysis of interview transcripts. The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities, mediated by increased cognitive offloading. Younger participants exhibited higher dependence on AI tools and lower critical thinking scores compared to older participants. Furthermore, higher educational attainment was associated with better critical thinking skills, regardless of AI usage. These results highlight the potential cognitive costs of AI tool reliance, emphasising the need for educational strategies that promote critical engagement with AI technologies. This study contributes to the growing discourse on AI's cognitive implications, offering practical recommendations for mitigating its adverse effects on critical thinking. The findings underscore the importance of fostering critical thinking in an AI-driven world, making this research essential reading for educators, policymakers, and technologists.

AI holds immense potential to advance human wellbeing, yet its current trajectory presents unprecedented dangers. AI could soon far surpass human capabilities and escalate risks such as engineered pandemics, widespread disinformation, large-scale manipulation of individuals including children, national and international security concerns, mass unemployment, and systematic human rights violations.

The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 79/1 of 22 September 2024, entitled “The Pact for the Future”, including the annex thereto entitled “Global Digital Compact”,1 in which the General Assembly decided to establish a multidisciplinary Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence and initiate a Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance, bearing in mind that the present resolution, as well as the activities of the Panel and the Dialogue are limited to the non-military domain and do not refer to artificial intelligence for military purposes

Las Vegas — Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity — and “tech bros” are taking the wrong approach to stop it.