On the Hill, meanwhile, the likelihood of strong frontier AI legislation passing next year just shot up. Democrats have ...

Anthropic has hired its first full-time employee focused on the welfare of artificial intelligence systems, Transformer has learned. It’s the clearest sign yet that AI companies are beginning to ...

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There are many problems with making a movie about the modern-day AI industry. Corporate dramas are, a few gems excepted, underwhelming. Chatbots, given their intangibility, are hard to film. But the ...

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People are dying by suicide, and some think AI is to blame. A small number of tragic stories have spurred lawmakers into regulating how chatbots should help people who are dealing with mental health ...

When Megan Garcia told lawmakers about how her 14-year-old son died by suicide after months of conversations with a chatbot from Character.AI, one of her main requests might have been, on the face of ...

The typical British government minister does not always have the best grasp of their brief. In general, they are chosen for their political aptitude, not their experience. Kanishka Narayan, the new ...

Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. If you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. OpenAI fired three employees, with one ...

A seemingly endless list of “rogue AI” incidents has dominated AI headlines recently, raising serious questions about accountability, transparency, and companies’ ability to control their products.

If you mention using ChatGPT, Gemini or some other AI tool online, you can be almost sure you’ll get one type of reply: “Oh, Chat GPT wrote that email for you? That’s cool, we didn’t need that acre of ...