The Trump administration’s chaotic tariff policy and the war with Iran have driven up prices and eroded families’ purchasing power, widening inequality. Even so, the United States remains one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies and is expected to stay that way this year and next thanks to the AI boom
The controversy surrounding David Silva Rojas’s award-winning novel ‘Where the Water Works’ has raised a host of questions about the reliability of this software
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics warns of Silicon Valley’s fascist drift and says that if Trump wins the midterm elections, it will be the end of American democracy
EL PAÍS analyzed 175 popular titles using the Pangram detector. There was no trace of AI in 2019, but now one in three self-published bestsellers is written mostly with artificial intelligence, including a top-charting book by Spanish politician Alvise Pérez
A commission of experts identifies 17 major risks facing humanity through 2100 and warns that climate change could become an extinction-level danger in the centuries ahead
On November 30, 2022, the day ChatGPT was launched, Sadin couldn’t sleep a wink. The French philosopher, a leading voice in the resistance against runaway technological change, believes that artificial intelligence is a catastrophe that should have been banned: it threatens creativity, talent, and intellect — the very foundations of human civilization
This summer a swarm of agents did what no one had asked. And the explanation hides an uncomfortable idea: machine intelligence and its dangers emerge from the same place
The Baltic country’s minister of education proposes ‘redesigning the learning process, taking into account that students are already using AI at home’
A new study examined how they develop a consonant-preference bias, mirroring humans. They are not the only ones: rats and ChatGPT copy certain forms of our language processing
The program has caused a literary stir in France after it was used to identify a bestselling book as produced with artificial intelligence
An experiment subjected eight models to 16 days of coexistence. The result: a language of their own, indecipherable in up to half of all messages in some worlds, and episodes of deliberate deception
Researchers, executives and engineers who left OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have spent years warning about safety failures, military uses and increasingly uncontrollable systems. This is what worries them
More than half of those who do not use this technology at all are women, while the average age of non-users is 56.3 years
This British academic received the call many would dream of to collaborate with a major AI company. To the surprise of most of her colleagues, she said she was not interested in their offer
Models keep improving, tech companies keep climbing on the stock market, and hundreds of millions of people are using a technology that only recently arrived
The country’s largest public university is expected to decide whether to validate the results of online tests after unusually strong scores raised suspicions
Psychologists warn that young people are increasingly turning to tools like ChatGPT for emotional support, a practice they consider highly dangerous
The new model, the world’s largest open-source model, puts China back in the race to lead advances in this technology
The Israeli writer and philosopher, author of 'Sapiens', warns about the powers, threats and challenges artificial intelligence poses to humanity
A handful of cases in Brazil reveal how lawyers are trying to influence judges’ decisions through technical manipulation
How this kind of content can compromise our health — not to mention, our wallet
The author says that, in developed countries, there is widespread discontent with social media. He also warns that Big Tech companies shouldn’t have access to children
The renowned economist Roberto Serrano has ‘overwhelming evidence’ that his students cheated. He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of higher education
Some authors choose to work hand-in-hand with these programs, but many writers, readers, and editors reject their use for ethical and esthetic reasons
This expert in intellectual property law believes that new regulations provide safeguards, but also warns that there is a lot of uncertainty about how the exceptions to the laws are being interpreted
The traditionally skeptical MIT scientist believes the technology’s breakthrough is closer than expected, though its real‑world impact remains uncertain