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Since taking the helm as WIRED’s global editorial director last August, I’ve heard from plenty of avid audience members—some with enthusiastic feedback about WIRED stories or coverage areas, and others with a consistent message that goes something like this: “I come to WIRED to read about tech, not [insert topic]. Stick to tech.” In January … Read more
As ChatGPT’s first birthday approaches, presents are rolling in for the large language model that rocked the world. From President Joe Biden comes an oversized “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.” And UK prime minister Rishi Sunak threw a party with a cool extinction-of-the-human-race theme, wrapped up … Read more
“The framework enables a set of binding requirements for federal agencies to put in place safeguards for the use of AI so that we can harness the benefits and enable the public to trust the services the federal government provides,” says Jason Miller, OMB’s deputy director for management. The draft memo highlights certain uses of … Read more
“We intend that the actions we are taking domestically will serve as a model for international action, understanding that AI developed in one nation can impact the lives and livelihoods of billions of people around the world,” Harris said Monday. “Fundamentally, it is our belief that technology with global impact requires global action.” Devilish Detail … Read more
Kaushik also welcomes the way Biden’s order demands changes to immigration policy to make it easier for AI talent to come to the US. A plan to allow immigrant workers to renew their visas inside the US, for example, could remove the need for hundreds of thousands of STEM students to travel to their home … Read more
“It shows a structural problem,” Michael Waltz, a third-term Floridia Republican, tells WIRED. “You have to, in a republic, be able to rule by majority vote, and when we have a structural problem that came out of January where we can’t, then I think that’s gotta be fixed.” Scalise’s surrender seems to have dislodged something. … Read more
Telegram is also a hugely powerful recruiting tool, giving this movement a platform free of censorship or restrictions to spread its message to a much larger audience than it would have on other mainstream platforms. “Alt-tech platforms—and Telegram is really one of the biggest examples of this—provide these hate groups with a ready-made audience of … Read more
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has fired its head of threat intelligence, Aaron Rodericks, and four other members of the team responsible for combating disinformation and misinformation, just months before the US Republican primaries mark the beginning of the 2024 American election cycle—and a year in which more than 50 countries around the … Read more
“Congress is in charge of money and everything for the government, and Congress should be in charge of funding special counsels. Those are my red lines,” Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican, told a group of congressional reporters. Greene’s other top demand is impeaching President Joe Biden. McCarthy has already launched an inquiry. With Trump … Read more
Probably the most outstanding victims of the GamerGate harassment marketing campaign took out a restraining order towards their ex-partner, whose false accusations lent fireplace to the motion. The restraining order did nothing to meaningfully resolve the abuse, but even when it had labored, it wouldn’t have stopped the GamerGate marketing campaign. The marketing campaign was … Read more