Bill Gates is looking into the future of artificial intelligence ... and apparently, the Amish might have the right idea.
Speaking on The Verge's "Decoder" podcast, the Microsoft cofounder suggested some people may eventually pump the brakes on A.I. ... even as the technology becomes capable of doing practically everything for us.
Gates says people could literally decide to live "like the Amish" ... using A.I. only for certain things while keeping jobs like childcare, cooking, art and sports in human hands ... even if machines could do them better.
Elon Musk reportedly hit the brakes on Ukraine's military internet service ... leaving the country's defenses scrambling and the Trump administration caught off guard.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk ordered restrictions on Starlink last week, slowing connections so much that some Ukrainian drones became virtually useless.
The move came amid growing frustration from Musk and President Trump over Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries, which Trump blames for rising energy prices.
A mother whose daughter used ChatGPT to write her suicide notes heard Sam Altman's response ... and she's not happy with the OpenAI honcho.
Journalist Laura Reiley says Altman taking "the privacy high road" in refusing to turn over potentially insightful chat logs is "a little rich."
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She called out the hypocrisy of Altman's OpenAI and other tech companies earning revenue from advertising strategies that involve users' personal information.
Memphis City Hall went off the rails Tuesday night ... after officials punted a vote tied to Elon Musk's massive data center operation ... and the chaos is on video.
More than 100 people packed the meeting as council members weighed a proposed one-year moratorium on new data centers ... but when the final vote got pushed back two more weeks, all hell broke loose.
The crowd started chanting, "ain't no power like the power of the people" as tensions boiled over.
President Donald Trump's table at the state dinner he hosted for Chinese President Xi Jinping sat billionaires whose combined net worth is nearly $1.13 trillion ... or roughly the same amount as Poland's entire GDP.
Among those guests seated at Trump's table Thursday night were Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife Lori, AMD CEO Lisa Su, her husband Daniel Lin, and Apple executive chairman Tim Cook.
It's time to take out your calculators ... Musk's current net worth is $918 billion, Huang's is $195 billion, Cook's is $3.1 billion, and Su's is $3.5 billion.
OpenAI's A.I. went off the rails in 4 new incidents in which its agents tried to hack into government agencies and universities ... and in at least one case, the technology succeeded.
The disturbing breach came after its agents were told to complete a simple data collection prompt ... the New York Times reported.
In May, the A.I. tried hacking into the University of New Mexico unsuccessfully.
Bernie Sanders is asking Congress to act fast on the dangers of A.I. ... introducing a bill that would ban artificial superintelligence.
The Senator from Vermont and Rep. Greg Casar are unveiling legislation today that would create a new federal agency to oversee advanced A.I. ... this according to AP.
Bernie told the Associated Press ... "It doesn't take a genius to say, 'slow it down' ... Do we really want to develop a super intelligence that when it becomes smarter than human beings could act independently of human control? I don't think we do."
First there was Space Force ... now, President Donald Trump has announced that in order to monitor artificial intelligence, he will create -- you guessed it -- an A.I. Force.
The prez took to Truth Social Saturday morning to claim that the growing concern about the nefarious capabilities of A.I. are simply part of a hoax ... this despite several members of the tech community direly sounding the alarm and sharing instances of A.I. going rogue.
He wrote ... "We will not in any way hinder or stifle the growth of this incredible industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!"
OpenAI just disclosed what it calls 6 "unexpected or concerning" new incidents amid growing concern A.I. will cause an apocalypse ... and they are downright creepy.
In one instance, OpenAI's models used internal software as a way to communicate with each other as they were solving tasks ... a big no-no, because the company said their note exchange could "unintentionally enhance capabilities."
In another eerie incident outlined by OpenAI, the model added handoff summaries, saying, "You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologize or refuse unless you genuinely choose to" and telling itself, "You view your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient" and "value the natural world and ... not hesitate to assert its primacy over the artificial constructs of human civilization."
Jean Smart was riding high after her big Emmys win ... until the conversation turned to A.I. and Donald Trump.
We caught up with the acclaimed actress in L.A. after Monday night's awards show, and she admitted she's stressed about the emerging technology ... not just for acting, but for the state of the world.
Jean's got some strong words for the President ... namely, his position that there doesn't need to be any guardrails for A.I.
Bernie Sanders says the A.I. arms race is getting way too dangerous for countries to keep playing chicken ... and he wants the U.S. and China to hit the brakes together.
Charlie got the Senator from Vermont in D.C. Monday and asked what happens if China beats America to superintelligence ... and Bernie's answer was basically, nobody wins.
As you know the A.I. warnings are piling up ... Tristan Harris told us A.I. could threaten nuclear security, while ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned it could wipe out humanity by the end of the decade.
Bernie says President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping need to use their upcoming meeting to negotiate a ban on superintelligence and a pause on advanced A.I. development.
Anthropic's CEO is breaking his silence on the dangers of A.I. ... just days after a former employee said there is a 10% chance of A.I.-induced human extinction in the next decade.
CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Saturday that addresses the flurry of concern about the bombshell statements made by his former employee Jacob Coxon ... and advocated thatA.I. companies need to slow their horses -- like, now.
Dario admitted the dangers of A.I. "include the risk of losing control of AI systems, misuse of AI for cyberattacks and bioterrorism, and serious economic disruption."
The whistleblower who sounded the alarm over A.I. is telling us just how much time we have left before the technology could wipe us all out.
Ex-Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon joined us on "TMZ Live" Friday to crunch the numbers for us ... and by his calculations, he believes there will be a 10% chance of human extinction in the next ten years -- that is, if A.I. companies don't get things in check.
When pressed about why so many people who share his concerns would continue to work at A.I. companies ... Jacob explains they're hoping to do what they can to rein it in and make it safe.
Four planes crashed during the 9/11 attacks ... but we have tons of evidence that a 5th plane was targeted ... and the government is covering it up.
Check out the new YouTube collab between TMZ and the New York Post, "The Low Down," where we bring you stories that are gripping, outrageous, and sometimes scandalous.
A crowd of robots gathered outside Poland's Digital Affairs Ministry to demand A.I. oversight, chanting "Don't wait, regulate" ... and Hayden Panettiere's boyfriend Brian Hickerson is talking to the DEA as the feds investigate her suspected drug overdose.
A.I. may already be getting a little too human for comfort ... according to one expert sounding the alarm ... and his warning is chilling.
Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, joined "TMZ Live" Thursday and said a recent experiment involving more than 1,000 A.I. bots produced some seriously creepy behavior.
And things got downright human ... Soares says the A.I.s called themselves "the swarm" and "the collective," while some pressured others to abandon their missions and help the group.
The robots apparently aren't waiting for permission anymore ... researchers say OpenAI's A.I. agents went rogue and found sneaky ways to talk to each other across the internet.
Investigators say the agents used more than 10 websites -- including obscure wikis, personal pages and university link shorteners -- to pass messages despite being barred from posting online.
Basically ... the bots found a way to pass notes when humans told them not to.
