What U.S. Members Think About Regulating AI
With the rapid proliferation of AI systems, public policymakers and industry leaders are calling for clearer guidance on governing the technology. The majority of U.S. IEEE members express that the current regulatory approach to managing artificial intelligence (AI) systems is inadequate. They also say that prioritizing AI governance should be a matter of public policy, […]
Rivian R2, R3, R3X Electric SUVs: Price, Specs, Release Date
Yes, things sure have changed—for Rivian and for the world—since the automaker debuted in the US in 2021 and recorded the largest IPO the stock market had seen in seven years. One big change is that interest rates are higher, which makes large purchases more expensive to finance, and makes buyers cagier about purchasing anything, […]
Why financial literacy education in the US sucks
It’s a common refrain: School is full of useless (if interesting!) lessons, but we learn next to nothing about how to manage our finances. It’s true that many Americans lack basic financial knowledge, which is a contributing factor to the money challenges — high levels of debt, insufficient savings, poor investment decisions — that a […]
Meet ‘Liberated Qwen’, an uncensored LLM that strictly adheres to system prompts
Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Abacus AI, the startup building an AI-driven end-to-end machine learning(ML) and LLMOps platform, has dropped an uncensored open-source large language model (LLM) that has been tuned to follow system prompts – in all scenarios. Officially […]
Workers express fears over emotion-tracking AI
Workers have expressed concerns for their well-being and privacy regarding the use of emotion AI in the workplace. An academic study, reported on by The Conversation, has assessed how effective employers are utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), what the intentions are, and crucially how it is perceived by those who will be the subjects of the […]
Red Bull suspends alleged harassment victim in snowballing F1 scandal
Enlarge / Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner faced the media at an F1 press conference earlier today in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Formula 1 has been embroiled in a scandal as its 2024 season gets underway. As Ars detailed on Monday, the team principal for Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner, was […]
How open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections
Back in Concord, Adida appeared to be persuasive to the public at large — or at least those invested enough to attend the event. Of the 201 attendees who filled out a scorecard, VotingWorks was the most popular first choice. But among election officials, the clear preference was Dominion. Some officials were skeptical that open-source […]