The hard physics and complex economics of AI’s insatiable hunger for power

But skepticism about AI’s impact on jobs, combined with perceptions about data centers’ disruptive impacts on communities, ...
Security Boulevard

The Braid: Rethinking Trust, Continuity and Human-AI Systems

What one AI-generated image taught me about trust, continuity, and why I am building QuietWire.  There is a problem with AI ...
Wall Street Journal

FTC Warns Retailers on Using Private Consumer Data to Raise Prices

Merchants have become increasingly skilled at using consumers’ personal data, including their online shopping habits and smartphone use, to calculate an individual’s tolerance for higher prices. Now ...
MIT Technology Review

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...