Artificial Intelligence California's fire protection agency made an AI chatbot. It can’t answer one crucial question The bot fails at some basic questions about fires. Cal Fire says it is working on ...

Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.

In the end, both Republicans and Democrats helped doom a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation after it cleared the House ...

The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse How a family’s neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look By Colin Lecher ...

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Pacific Gas and Electric, which runs Diablo Canyon, announced a deal with artificial intelligence startup Atomic Canyon —a company also based in San Luis Obispo—around the same time, heralding it in a ...

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Natural disasters have affected nearly 90 percent of U.S. counties since 2013, and while many households know about preparing emergency kits, a recent FEMA survey found a large drop in how many people ...

Hello World The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico Border “At any given moment, there is something or someone watching you,” sociologist Francisco Lara-García ...

Artificial Intelligence Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites ...

In October 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that an AI-powered chatbot would help New York business owners navigate the government. Months later, that chatbot is telling businesses to ...