ChatGPT creator OpenAI is reportedly earning $80M a month The company started charging some users for ChatGPT earlier this year. Fortune · Aug 30, 2023
‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too ‘woke’, experts argue it’s not a sentient being with its own viewpoints The Guardian - US · Aug 21, 2023
The world has a big appetite for AI – but we really need to know the ingredients Much ‘artificial intelligence’ harvests original creative work by humans. Regulators must demand transparency about training data The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2023
ChatGPT's fate hangs in the balance as OpenAI reportedly edges closer to bankruptcy The company is reportedly on the verge of bankruptcy. Predictions indicate that this could happen by early 2024. Windows Central · Aug 14, 2023
Silicon Valley's latest hype: Eyeball-scanning silver orbs to confirm you're human The project is called Worldcoin. It was co-founded by Sam Altman of ChatGPT fame. Its mission is to authenticate all the world's humans, one eyeball scan at a time. WEKU · Aug 13, 2023
AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa Forget ‘AI doomerism’ hype over ChatGPT, big tech’s colonial attitude lets hateful electoral propaganda be fed to millions The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2023
Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to build a global ID and finance system. Governments are not impressed Millions of people worldwide are lining up to stare into a silver sphere about the size of a bowling ball so their irises can be scanned in exchange for online identity verification and “free” cryptocurrency. The Conversation · Aug 8, 2023
Can A.I. companies move fast without breaking things? The rapid, unfettered rise of social media taught the world some tough lessons. The stakes are even higher with A.I. Fortune · Aug 8, 2023
Hundreds sign up to ponder OpenAI founder's eye-scanning crypto orb despite data concerns Who knew the processing of "sensitive data at a very large scale" might require a licence? PC Gamer · Aug 7, 2023
WorldCoin Attracts 2 Million Users, Hundreds Line-up To Stare at the Orb Proof of Personhood can also net you a $50 return and promise you an anonymized world identity ID, there may be reasons to accept. Tom’s Hardware · Aug 6, 2023
Palantir CEO Says Our Generation’s Atomic Bomb Could Be AI Weapon The controversy over the United States' use of an atomic bomb on Japan has been rekindled by "Oppenheimer." Zenger · Aug 4, 2023
Kenya becomes the first country to suspend Sam Altman’s Worldcoin A.I.-crypto scheme Worldcoin wants governments as customers, but they may not be so keen. Fortune · Aug 2, 2023
Chatbots sometimes make things up. Not everyone thinks AI's hallucination problem is fixable Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn’t take long for them to spout falsehoods The Independent UK · Aug 1, 2023
Sam Altman: the OpenAI CEO leading the AI revolution The launch of ChatGPT last November propelled OpenAI, and its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, into the global spotlight. The Week · Jul 31, 2023
Salon · Jul 29, 2023 Why utopian thinking is so dangerous Futurist Monika Bielskyte on our dangerous addiction to utopia and dystopia — and how to build an inclusive future
Fortune · Jul 28, 2023 French privacy watchdog raises alarms over OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s “questionable” Worldcoin venture The French agency CNIL said it initiated an investigation into the company.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 28, 2023 A new crypto firm wants to scan your eyeballs – should you look away? For critics, the ID process from Worldcoin is a privacy risk; for others it is financial security in the age of AI. We try it out
Fortune · Jul 26, 2023 Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI just became charter members of what may be the first true A.I. lobby. Up next: Lawmakers write the rules Here's a premise, says Mark Fagan, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Public Policy: "Everyone who walks into a policymaker's office is not an altruist."
The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2023 New cryptocurrency offers users tokens for scanning their eyeballs Worldcoin, launched by CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, says scheme will distinguish between ‘verified humans’ and AI
Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2023 ChatGPT gets official Android app The ChatGPT app for Android is available to pre-install ahead of its full release on Google Play
Fortune · Jul 24, 2023 What is Worldcoin? A plain English guide to the orb that gives you crypto to scan your eyeballs Want a simple overview of what Worldcoin's eye-scanning device is all about? Fortune has you covered.
Fortune · Jul 24, 2023 Sam Altman’s Worldcoin token nears $350 million market cap, potentially netting OpenAI CEO even more cash The token fuels a project that hopes to prove we are not machines through our eyeballs.
Fortune · Jul 24, 2023 Sam Altman's A.I.-busting crypto token Worldcoin is live. All you have to do is scan your eyeball The launch is one of the buzziest—and weirdest—crypto releases in years.
Tribune News Service · Jul 21, 2023 OpenAI backs idea of requiring licenses for advanced AI systems An internal policy memo drafted by OpenAI shows the company supports the idea of requiring government licenses from anyone who wants to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems. The document also suggests the company is willing to pull back the curtain on the data it uses to train image generators.
Fortune · Jul 19, 2023 1,300 A.I. experts come together to downplay ‘nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords' Many technologists, including Elon Musk, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, have warned about A.I. potentially wiping out mankind.