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15 Jan

AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?

stp2y0 CommentsAIadvice, artificial intelligence, ethics, productivity, the prompt

Should I set up a personal AI agent to help with my daily tasks?—Searching for AssistanceAs a general rule, I think relying on any kind of automation in your daily life is dangerous when taken to the extreme and potentially alienating even when used in moderation, especially with regards to personal interactions. An AI agent that organizes my task list and gathers online links for further reading? Fabulous. An AI agent that automatically messages my parents every week with a quick life update? Horrific.The strongest argument for not involving more generative AI tools into your daily routine, however, remains the…

09 Jan

The OceanGate of Software Development: Coding with Generative AI

stp2y0 CommentsNewsai, coding, community, development, engineering, ethics, inclusive, software, softwaredevelopment

When the OceanGate Titan submersible set out to push the boundaries of undersea exploration, it did so at breakneck speed—with a disregard for some tried-and-tested engineering best practices. The parallels between that fateful journey and coding with generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot or Cursor are hard to ignore. Both represent a fascinating, yet potentially perilous, obsession with speed and innovation over thoughtful diligence. Why we use Generative AI Generative AI in coding promises the moon—and then some. These tools can spit out boilerplate code, intricate algorithms, and even full-fledged modules in seconds, eliminating repetitive tasks and unlocking time for…

13 Dec

Tips for ChatGPT’s Voice Mode? Best AI Uses for Retirees? Our Expert Answers Your Questions

stp2y0 CommentsAIalgorithms, artificial intelligence, chatgpt, ethics, google, machine learning, openai

Thank you so much to all the readers who tuned in live to participate in the second installment of our question and answer series focused on artificial intelligence. I was thrilled to see so many questions come in before the event, as well as all the questions that were dropped into the chat during our conversation.Missed the broadcast? We’ve got your back. Below is a replay of this event that WIRED subscribers can watch whenever. Also, the livestream from the first one is available here.I started off the chat with a couple quick demos showing how to use the image…

13 Dec

Former ByteDance Intern Accused of Sabotage Among Winners of Prestigious AI Award

stp2y0 CommentsRAG modelsartificial intelligence, awards, ByteDance, conferences, ethics, machine learning

A former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner of one of the most prestigious annual awards for AI research this week. Keyu Tian, whose LinkedIn and Google Scholar pages list him as a master’s student in computer science at Peking University, is the first author of one of two papers chosen Tuesday for the main “Best Paper Award” at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, the largest gathering of machine learning researchers in the world.The paper, titled “Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction,” presents…

11 Dec

Generative AI Is My Research and Writing Partner. Should I Disclose It?

stp2y0 CommentsAIartificial intelligence, chatgpt, education, ethics, the prompt

“If I use an AI tool for research or to help me create something, should I cite it in my completed work as a source? How do you properly give attribution to AI tools when you use them?”—Citation SeekerDear Citation,The straightforward answer is that if you’re using generative AI for research purposes, disclosure is probably not necessary. Yet, attribution is probably required if you use ChatGPT or another AI tool for composition.Anytime you’re feeling ethically conflicted about disclosing your engagement with AI software, here are two guiding questions I think you should ask yourself: Did I utilize AI for research…

10 Dec

More Humanitarian Organizations Will Harness AI’s Potential

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIartificial intelligence, chatgpt, Climate, education, ethics, ideas, politics, the wired world in 2025

For many of the people served by the humanitarian sector, 2024 has been the worst of times. The most recent UN estimates of those forced to flee violence and disaster is a record of 120 million, a figure that has doubled in the past decade. The broader figure of those in humanitarian need, 300 million people, has been swelled by increasingly violent conflict and growing impacts of the climate crisis. Progress in meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals has also been either stagnating or declining in more than half of the fragile countries. A child born in those countries has a…

21 Nov

How Best to Use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Other AI Tools? Our AI Expert Answers Your Questions

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What are the key differences between ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and other top AI tools? Which one is best? How deeply should you be concerned about AI systems using your personal data? Are the reported inaccuracies and biases of the AI platforms really as bad as what I read?Earlier this month, we asked you, WIRED subscribers, to send in your questions about generative artificial intelligence, and these are just some of the excellent queries we received. On November 20 we hosted a live Q&A session with WIRED’s Reece Rogers, the author of the “AI Unlocked” newsletter, the monthly AI ethics…

14 Nov

I’m Out of Shape. Will an AI Trainer Improve My Fitness?

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I can tell this question comes from an honest place of wanting to reduce the harm you cause through your individual interactions with AI software, which we know is quite resource-intensive. But first, take a step back with me for a moment and free yourself from the guilt of existence.I would bet serious cash you’re an avid recycler as well? Someone who knows far too much about the different types of plastics and religiously sorts it all out like an upstanding citizen?While this is a great practice in theory, your recyclable items may actually end up getting incinerated, buried in…

16 Oct

Algorithms Policed Welfare Systems For Years. Now They’re Under Fire for Bias

stp2y0 CommentsGenAIalgorithms, artificial intelligence, ethics, machine learning, privacy

“People receiving a social allowance reserved for people with disabilities [the Allocation Adulte Handicapé or AAH] are directly targeted by a variable in the algorithm,” says Bastien Le Querrec, legal expert at La Quadrature du Net. “The risk score for people receiving AAH and who are working is increased.”Because it also scores single-parent families higher than two-parent families, the groups argue it indirectly discriminates against single mothers, who are statistically more likely to be sole-care givers. “In the criteria for the 2014 version of the algorithm, the score for beneficiaries who have been divorced for less than 18 months is…

25 Sep

Trae Stephens Has Built AI Weapons and Worked for Donald Trump. As He Sees It, Jesus Would Approve

stp2y0 CommentsRAG modelsbig interview, ethics, longreads, military tech, politics, weapons

When I wrote about Anduril in 2018, the company explicitly said it wouldn’t build lethal weapons. Now you are building fighter planes, underwater drones, and other deadly weapons of war. Why did you make that pivot?We responded to what we saw, not only inside our military but also across the world. We want to be aligned with delivering the best capabilities in the most ethical way possible. The alternative is that someone’s going to do that anyway, and we believe that we can do that best.Were there soul-searching discussions before you crossed that line?There’s constant internal discussion about what to…