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Technology Archive

Archives for November 2023

Technology
Local police should not be your go-to source for iPhone safety newsLocal police should not be your go-to source for iPhone safety news
Technology

A warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement.

By A.W. Ohlheiser
Katja Grace wants you to stop thinking of AI as an arms race
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Grace argues AI researchers should slow down. They’re starting to agree with her.

By Sigal Samuel
Jerry Chow wants to make quantum computers you can actually count on
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

A reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work.

By Bryan Walsh
Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney have a plan for national progress
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

The co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine.

By Bryan Walsh
Azeem Azhar is drawing a road map to a better future
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

The technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate

By Bryan Walsh
Priya Donti is harnessing AI to fight climate change
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Donti is showing how machine learning can be a powerful ally to address the climate crisis.

By Oshan Jarow
Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Whittaker, the president of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence.

By Sigal Samuel
Yoshua Bengio helped invent deep learning. Now he’s trying to make it safe.
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

How a renowned AI scientist became a voice for caution.

By Kelsey Piper
OpenAI’s Jan Leike is trying to ensure superintelligent AI remains on our side
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

It might just be the most important job in the world.

By Kelsey Piper
Paul Christiano and Beth Barnes are trying to make advanced AI honest, and safe
The 2023 Future Perfect 50

Christiano and Barnes have helped mainstream concerns about AI misalignment.

By Dylan Matthews
Supreme Court
Elon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judgesElon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judges
Supreme Court

Reed O’Connor is one of the most unapologetic Republican partisans in the entire federal judiciary.

By Ian Millhiser
Future Perfect
The militarized AI risk that’s bigger than “killer robots”The militarized AI risk that’s bigger than “killer robots”
Future Perfect

The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI.

By Jeffrey Lewis
Why it’s important to remember that AI isn’t human
Future Perfect

ChatGPT can talk like a person. You shouldn’t think of it as one.

By Raphaël Millière and Charles Rathkopf
Technology
What to know about OpenAI’s failed coupWhat to know about OpenAI’s failed coup
Technology

Sam Altman is back at OpenAI. What happens to its safety mission?

By Sara Morrison and Peter Kafka
Future Perfect
OpenAI’s board may have been right to fire Sam Altman — and to rehire him, tooOpenAI’s board may have been right to fire Sam Altman — and to rehire him, too
Future Perfect

The alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse.

By Sigal Samuel