Artificial Intelligence

AI fights conspiracy theories, Massachusetts leads the way on waste reduction, and more in this week’s science news roundup

The Federal Trade Commission is studying how companies use consumer data to charge different prices for the same product

AI and tiny worms team up to get to treats

Until AI algorithms understand what words mean, they won’t be reliable for important decisions—especially those with money on the line

A Google experiment to improve stoplights shows early positive results. But AI-assisted software won’t replace human traffic engineers just yet

The benefits of being polite to AI may include prompting better chatbot replies—and nurturing our humanity

Large language models may enable real-time communication with extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vast distances between stars. We need to start thinking about what to tell them about us

In the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics, the French government has authorized wide-reaching use of AI software in security surveillance feeds

It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information

Poker players can now employ AI to find the optimal playing strategy, but they often don’t use it. Here’s why

A new approach uses language models to interrogate other language models and sniff out lies

By learning exploits from adversarial AI, people could defeat a superhuman Go-playing system