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As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
Best Frenemies
Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
Model Behavior
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
Wake Up, Sheeple
Conspiracy! How 9/11 Broke America’s Brain
The Price of Eggs
She Got a Great Deal on Egg Freezing. Then She Spiraled
Great Replacement
Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
Crossing the Line
A Genetic Curse, a Scared Mom, and the Quest to ‘Fix’ Embryos
Originally published March 2021: Danielle Messer carried a mitochondrial mutation that left her son severely disabled. Before even daring another pregnancy, she tracked down an “egg specialist.”
The Last Cowboys
