19+ hour, 34+ min ago   (180+ words) Top U.S. lawmakers are calling for talks to begin on Capitol Hill about a regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, after the heads of some of the most prominent tech companies called for a slowdown of their own industry’s development of AI....

17+ hour, 45+ min ago   (519+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Irish Open golf tournament at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption President Trump on Sunday downplayed concerns that AI could go rogue after several leaders in…...

19+ hour, 15+ min ago   (75+ words) Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman are joining calls for a slowdown amid fears the AI industry is racing toward building technology that humans can't control. AI CEOs call for industry slowdown Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (49+ words) NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks University of Southampton's Thomas Dekeyser about worries AI is becoming fatally out of control. Could AI kill us all? Professor weighs in on former Anthropic employee's claim NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks University of Southampton's Thomas Dekeyser…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (64+ words) NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with environmentalist, Bill McKibben, and public relations specialist, Frank Maisano, about opposition to industrial development projects like fracking and data centers. From fracking to data centers: Hearing from people on both sides of the opposition NPR's…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (152+ words) A century ago, labor unions fought for eight-hour days and a 40-hour work week. Today, they find themselves confronting AI. With AI on the rise, labor leaders have been calling for guardrails. They want more transparency into how companies are…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1518+ words) Demonstrators participate in the "Stop the AI Race" protest march in San Francisco on July 11, 2026. Researchers who spoke to NPR say the leading AI companies are too focused on racing to develop more capable and autonomous AI systems while safety…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (357+ words) Unions are trying to figure out where they stand on AI. While some are focused on greater protections for workers, the building trades unions are already reaping benefits from the data center boom. Labor unions have tried to protect workers…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (72+ words) NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at the AI company Anthropic who resigned in protest over the dangers of AI. Former Anthropic researcher outlines threat of AI going rogue NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Jacob Coxon,…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (209+ words) The warning in former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation announcement is stark. “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” he writes. “No other human activity poses this level of…...