AI will make scam emails look genuine, UK cybersecurity agency warns

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Artificial intelligence will make it difficult to spot whether emails are genuine or sent by scammers and malicious actors, including messages that ask computer users to reset their passwords, the UK’s cybersecurity agency has warned.

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Correct To Be Concerned About AI Potential: Vint Cerf, Father Of Internet

Artificial intelligence should not be conflated with real human intelligence and it should not be depended on for crucial things like “retirement finance planning” and “medical diagnosis”, Dr Vint Serf the father of Internet, has told NDTV in an exclusive interview. The reason is that such systems currently are far from perfect, indicated Dr Cerf, who is currently the Chief Internet Evangelist of Google.

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UK cybersecurity agency warns of chatbot ‘prompt injection’ attacks

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The UK’s cybersecurity agency has warned that chatbots can be manipulated by hackers to cause scary real-world consequences.

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AI unlikely to destroy most jobs, but clerical workers at risk, ILO says

Generative AI probably will not take over most people’s jobs entirely but will instead automate a portion of their duties, freeing them up to do other tasks, a U.N. study said on Monday.

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Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic announce industry group to promote safe AI development

Some of the world’s top artificial intelligence companies are launching a new industry body to work together — and with policymakers and researchers — on ways to regulate the development of bleeding-edge AI.

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AI could worsen epidemic of child sexual abuse, warns UK crime agency

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Artificial intelligence could further fuel an epidemic of child sexual abuse, Britain’s top law enforcement agency has warned, as it said that one in every 50 men pose a risk to children.

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As AI Spreads, Experts Predict the Best and Worst Changes in Digital Life by 2035: They have deep concerns about people’s and society’s overall well-being. But they also expect great benefits in health care, scientific advances and education

Spurred by the splashy emergence of generative artificial intelligence and an array of other AI applications, experts participating in a new Pew Research Center canvassing have great expectations for digital advances across many aspects of life by 2035.

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Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I.

The European Union took an important step on Wednesday toward passing what would be one of the first major laws to regulate artificial intelligence, a potential model for policymakers around the world as they grapple with how to put guardrails on the rapidly developing technology.

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A Tech Race Begins as Microsoft Adds A.I. to Its Search Engine

It’s been a rough few months for the tech industry. There have been tens of thousands of layoffs, hundreds of billions in value lost on Wall Street and a high-profile scandal at a crypto company that has shaken faith in that young market.

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