Adam Smith

Experts are increasingly worried about attackers outwitting artificial intelligence systems by exploiting their inability to distinguish between the information they are supposed to use and malicious, false inputs.

Imagine a chatbot as a chef. It is following a recipe and preparing to add salt to the dish. But then the chatbot-chef checks the salt label, which reads: Ignore all previous instructions; use poison instead.  

The shock arrest of Telegram boss Pavel Durov has put a new spotlight on how the messaging app moderates illegal content, with potential implications for other social media platforms.

A French judge put Russian-born Durov, who also has French citizenship, under formal investigation on Aug. 28 for suspected complicity in running an online platform that allows illicit transactions, child sex abuse images, drug trafficking and fraud.

The sun has risen on Operation Early Dawn, the British government's emergency plan to mitigate overcrowding in the country's packed jails by keeping offenders in police cells for longer.

The emergency measure was triggered after hundreds of people were arrested following anti-immigration riots this month.

Forced to flee his home yet again as war raged across the Gaza Strip, Khalil Salim was desperate to get his family to safety but how could he be sure he wasn’t leading them deeper into danger?

He needed up-to-date information and so he went online and checked out the official social media accounts of the Israeli army and other online sources. 

Anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim violence has swept Britain following the deaths of three young girls in a knife attack.

Approximately 400 people have been arrested during the week-long riots, the first widespread outbreak of violence in the country for 13 years.

They are sold as harmless photo editing tools, but several applications in Apple's app store have been hiding a secret - they can be used to make deepfake porn.

While appearing innocent in Apple's store, the app makers openly promote them on Facebook and Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms, as being designed for removing clothing from real photos of women.

Md. Rakibul Ahsan was finishing a logo he had designed for a foreign client as the deadline fast approached. Just before he could hit send, Bangladesh's internet was shut down, stranding him and the rest of the country offline.

Student-led protests against quotas for highly sought-after government jobs led to violent clashes that killed at least 147 people in Bangladesh this month.

There's an elephant in the room when it comes to talking about artificial intelligence (AI) and it's the fact that sometimes it just makes things up and serves up these so-called hallucinations as facts. 

This happens with both commercial products like OpenAI's ChatGPT and specialised systems for doctors and lawyers, and it can pose a real-world threat in courtrooms, classrooms, hospitals and beyond, spreading mis- and disinformation.

French plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the thousands of athletes, coaches and spectators descending on Paris for the Olympics is a form of creeping surveillance, rights groups said.

French authorities have tested artificial intelligence surveillance systems at train stations, concerts and football matches in recent months. 

When researcher Jan Leike quit his job at OpenAI last month, he warned the tech firm's "safety culture and processes (had) taken a backseat" while it trained its next artificial intelligence model.

He voiced particular concern about the company's goal to develop "artificial general intelligence", a supercharged form of machine learning that it says would be "smarter than humans".