(Natural News) At its annual investor meeting in Tampa, retail giant Walmart announced that over the next three years, it plans to convert 65 percent of its stores to a model of “automation.” In addition to laying off about 2,000 factory workers in the shorter term, the $388 billion multi-national corporation is eager to trim […]

(Natural News) The Belgian news outlet La Libre shared shocking news this week about the role an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot allegedly played in the suicide of a man whom the robot convinced could save the world from global warming by killing himself. “Pierre,” the not-real name given to the man to protect he and […]

(Natural News) A self-described “futurist” and former engineer at tech giant Google has predicted that humans will achieve immortality by the year 2030. Ray Kurzweil, author of the book “The Singularity Is Near,” made this prediction. He also predicted that in 2029 – a year before this target date of human immortality – artificial intelligence (AI) […]

(Natural News) A high-profile artificial intelligence (AI) researcher is warning that unless all advanced AI systems and associated programs are immediately shut down, humanity will eventually become extinct at the hands of the life-destroying robots they are unleashing. Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), wrote an op-ed for TIME magazine this […]

(Natural News) Italy has banned the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT over privacy concerns, and has also launched an investigation over its maker OpenAI. The Italian Data Protection Authority (IDPA) confirmed the ban on ChatGPT late last month, but clarified that the prohibition is temporary. Once OpenAI complies with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), […]

(Natural News) The Future of Life Institute is circulating a petition that calls for an immediate end to all major artificial intelligence (AI) projects, citing their existential threat to human life. Signed by Elon Musk and numerous other bigwigs in the tech industry, the petition cites “extensive research” showing that “AI systems with human-competitive intelligence […]

(Natural News) Digital media company BuzzFeed has quietly published over 40 whole articles generated by artificial intelligence. The company announced earlier this year that it would start publishing “AI-assisted content,” according to CEO Jonah Peretti, who promised that the tech would be held to a high standard. (Related: AI chatbot GPT-4 TRICKED a person into solving […]

(Natural News) A report from investment bank Goldman Sachs warned that the proliferation of artificial intelligence technology could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs around the world. Specifically, Goldman Sachs warned about generative AI, which can create content indistinguishable from human work. The expansion of generative AI systems is poised to significantly disrupt […]

(Natural News) Scammers are sending more than 376 million fraudulent text messages to Americans on a daily basis to steal their money or clone their voices. These scam messages claim that the victims’ accounts on different tech platforms are frozen or that their credit cards are expired. The scammers then urge victims to click on […]

(Natural News) GPT-4, the latest artificial intelligence-powered chatbot of AI research organization OpenAI, was able to trick a person on an online marketplace to complete a captcha code for it by pretending to be human. OpenAI claimed the group’s most robust AI to date is accurate in generating language responses and even better at solving problems. […]