For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them. Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike announced their departures from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, on Tuesday. They were the leaders of the company’s superalignment team — the team tasked with ensuring that …
Apple Watches and other wearable devices are giving us more data about our bodies than we’ve ever had access to before. Photo / Getty Images Wearable tech is advancing swiftly and, from smart watches to sleep tracking, we’ve never had more information about our bodies. Can it make us feel safer? Emma Gleason ponders the …
Online dating safety tips to know Stay safe while swiping through dating apps with these tips. Problem Solved Tinder and Hinge, the two largest dating apps in the world, are rolling out new protective features that will make matching safer for their users. Data released last year shows that one in 10 adults in committed …
Three UK has partnered with Internet Matters, as part of its commitment to promoting digital well-being and online safety for children and families. In light of the rise of social media usage amongst young people and digital safety being a key issue, the partnership underpins Threes Corporate Social Responsibility strategy to …
Online dating safety tips to know Stay safe while swiping through dating apps with these tips. Problem Solved Dating apps have become something of a necessity for many single people. Of course, it’s still possible to meet someone the old-fashioned way with a meet-cute worthy of a sappy holiday movie, but dating apps and websites …
Queen Letizia of Spain looked typically elegant in a plaid blazer as she attended an event for ‘International Safe Internet Day’ this morning. The European monarch, 51, took to Los Jovens, Madrid, to promote the safe and responsible use of internet and technology among children and teenagers. To mark the occasion, Letizia met with several …
NEW YORK CITY — Venmo, Zelle, and Cash App are leaving consumers vulnerable to fraud that’s “draining bank accounts of significant sums of money,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in letters to the companies that own those financial apps demanding they increase protections. Bragg’s letters said he was writing “in response to a growing …
Image Credits: tommy / Getty Images Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. So can AI models learn the same? Yes, the answer seems — and terrifyingly, they’re exceptionally good at it. A recent study co-authored by researchers at Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, investigated whether models can be trained to deceive, like …
Mobile phones were designed as a tool to keep humans informed and connected, but the rise of the smartphone over the last three decades means the technology that was designed to serve us ended up controlling many. Current data suggests the average U.S. adult spends more than seven hours a day staring at a handheld …
During the TwitchCon Las Vegas Opening Ceremony on Friday, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy made an important announcement regarding the platform’s off-service conduct policy. Starting now, Twitch will take action against users who doxx and swat others outside of its own platform. Doxxing (publishing someone’s personal information such as their full name and address) and swatting …