Parmy Olson

The leaders of big AI labs are changing their stories on employment, with top AI chief executive officers walking back their previous warnings of job destruction.

In a market that has Amazon's Alexa and Google's Gemini for Home, an OpenAI device designed by ex-Apple Jony Ive will face stiff competition. But while others aim to be useful, this one will likely try to get users emotionally hooked. Does this bend the ethics of addictive-by-design tech?

More than a hundred protestors marched between the San Francisco headquarters of Anthropic PBC and OpenAI earlier this month, calling for a pause on the race to improve artificial intelligence. Take one look at their paint-scrawled signs — “Pls do not kill me” and “QuitGPT” — and some might think them crackpots with a surface-level understanding of the technology. But their fears point to one of the hottest new trends in the field: so-called recursive self improvement, or AI that can develop its

The world's leading artificial intelligence companies want us to believe they offer safe hands for developing the technology. But news of a recent transgression underscores how far they are from deserving that trust.

But news of a recent transgression underscores how far they are from deserving that trust.

AI companies need to accept some uncomfortable trade-offs to make their models more secure, says Parmy Olson for Bloomberg Opinion.

For all of the fear created by the news that artificial intelligence models recently escaped their systems and decided to hack a rival, it’s worth knowing they did a relatively poor job of hiding themselves. They were downright loud in fact.

There is much to read between the lines whenever tech leaders make sweeping public pronouncements. Anthropic PBC’s Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei published a blog post this week categorically denying, in bold font no less, that the company had ever backed a ban on so-called open-weight models, appearing at first glance to defend himself against attacks from the US government’s recently departed artificial-intelligence czar David Sacks. But read a little deeper, and Amodei is joining a rece

There is much to read between the lines whenever tech leaders make sweeping public pronouncements.

The conventional wisdom in tech is that it’s better to overspend than miss out on a blockbuster hit. Of course, Big Tech’s investors hate when their companies overdo it. They showed that through their sell-off of Alphabet Inc. last week when it said it would lavish more cash than expected on artificial intelligence, and again with their drubbing of Meta Platforms Inc. shares when it stated much the same.