When AI Spews Fake News

A new algorithm can mass-produce fake news in the most convincing manner, compelling researchers to hold back the breakthrough.

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The capabilities demonstrated by artificial intelligence (AI) are just beginning to unfold one shock after another. That the technological evolution has the potential to affect human life and society before we are ready for it is already giving researchers and technologists sleepless nights. Among them is OpenAI, a San Franciscobased non-profit research organisation whose mission is to discover and enact the path to safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company focusses on long-term research so that it can redirect the impact that this technology will have very soon. OpenAI is funded and sponsored by several global tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, among others.