Werner Pfennig/Pexels AI is beginning to influence how boards of directors make decisions in South African companies. Directors use it to do things like assess financial information, predict market trends or identify potential risks before… Read more: AI has arrived in South Africa’s boardrooms – but company law hasn’t caught up

The New York District Attorney announced on Monday that it has seized 12 websites hosting AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery, primarily of celebrities and public figures.  The DA’s office said it believes that this marks the… Read more: New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites

While the US appears to be further away from meaningful AI regulations than ever before, lawmakers certainly have plenty of ideas on how the country could go about setting meaningful rules. It’s a particularly precarious… Read more: Bernie Sanders Proposes Banning Superintelligent AI and Imprisoning Developers for 20 Years

Volvo provided flights from Washington, DC, to London, England, and accommodation so Ars could see its refreshed vehicles. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Most cars get a midlife facelift about four years after… Read more: New corners, new lights for 2028 Volvo XC40

In the badlands of Chakwal, in north-central Pakistan, Bestway Cement is transforming plots of dry earth and olive and peach groves into a forest of solar panels. Its efforts will add 6.34 megawatts of generation… Read more: “Offensively cheap”: Solar power is looking up

In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.

In the 2010s, Valve was at the forefront of a virtual reality revolution that looked to some like it would upend the gaming industry. The Valve of six to ten years ago seemed committed to… Read more: Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review

Stonehenge is the most famous example of megalithic architecture across Britain and Ireland, but there are plenty of others, including Calanais, Newgrange, and Avebury, as well as the Devil’s Arrows. The latter is Britain’s tallest… Read more: Prehistoric builders transported Devil’s Arrows 11 miles

OpenAI is seeking clarity from Congress on whether coordinated efforts by rival AI labs to slow frontier development could violate antitrust law. The post The AI Slowdown Problem: OpenAI Fears Antitrust Rules Could Get in… Read more: The AI Slowdown Problem: OpenAI Fears Antitrust Rules Could Get in the Way

This week we’re joined by Jennie Rose Halprein, executive director of Library Futures, a non-profit that advocates for a fair digital future for libraries and the communities they serve. We have written a bunch of… Read more: Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)

Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct, opening a six-week public consultation on operational constraints for model training and deployment. The draft serves as a technical manual defining system behaviour, operational… Read more: Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct

Last summer, a cop with the Lake County, Indiana Sheriff’s Department used Flock’s surveillance search engine to look for a license plate across more than 19,000 cameras in 1,558 cities and towns. The cop’s stated… Read more: Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’

Interactive content startup Flam is looking to build up impressive traction that it says was made while operating in “stealth mode” after announcing a $40 million Series B round of funding today. The round was… Read more: Flam raises $40M in funding to make AI-enabled interactive content a reality

President condemns what he claims is a ‘sick conspiracy’ amid global tech selloff following CEOs calls for slowing pace of development Sign up for the Breaking News US email Donald Trump has claimed there is… Read more: Trump claims he is only ‘guardrail’ needed to control AI as top Republicans join him in dismissing calls for more checks – live

Malaysia has completed its draft AI Governance Bill, bringing proposed risk, oversight, and incident-reporting rules closer to enterprises. The post Malaysia Advances AI Governance Bill as New Enterprise Rules Take Shape appeared first on TechRepublic.

Ant Group’s AQ health app has reached 150 million users as it expands into wearable data, nutrition, sleep, exercise, and AI-powered health coaching. The post China’s Ant Group Pushes AQ Into Everyday Health as Users… Read more: China’s Ant Group Pushes AQ Into Everyday Health as Users Reach 150M

A World War I submarine wreck off Denmark is leaking TNT into the surrounding water, seabed, and marine life more than a century after it sank. Scientists warn that thousands of similar wrecks could pose… Read more: This German submarine sank in 1917. It’s still leaking TNT

Captive-raised saltwater crocodiles released into Bangladesh’s Sundarbans surprised scientists by settling into the wild rather than trying to return to their breeding facility. The result suggests that releasing larger, mature captive crocodiles could help restore… Read more: Crocodiles are famous for finding their way home. These ones didn’t

A foundational chemistry concept found in textbooks for almost 100 years may have been taught incorrectly. Researchers say the inductive effect in neutral molecules appears to extend only across one chemical bond, rather than gradually… Read more: Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years

OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors who read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts, with the prompts sometimes including sensitive personal information, 404 Media has learned. The prompts these people review can include… Read more: Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Scientists have discovered that the brain’s short-range wiring may help protect cognition even as gray matter shrinks with age. Healthier connections just beneath the brain’s surface were linked to better language skills and appeared to… Read more: Hidden brain wiring may help keep the mind sharp as gray matter shrinks

Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei joined Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in calling for a slowdown in the development of frontier AI models — just days after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced that… Read more: Trump’s Uninformed Blundering About the AI Slowdown Could Literally Threaten Humankind’s Future

It’s been quite the couple of weeks for Formula 1. First, its annual visit to one of the oldest tracks on the calendar, the Italian temple of speed that is Monza, just outside Milan. Apologies… Read more: F1 in Madrid: Like Monaco but twice as long and none of the glamour

Cancer rates are rising in adults under 55, and new research suggests accelerated biological aging may be one piece of the puzzle. Scientists found that people from more recent generations tended to have bodies that… Read more: Cancer is rising in younger adults. Faster biological aging may help explain why

Abigail Bradshaw says ‘enormous’ amounts of money required to update systems that people now expect to be constantly available Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast One of Australia’s top intelligence… Read more: Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says

Financial losses caused by AI fraud are skyrocketing, especially among adults over 60. Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash The phone rings, and it’s your grandson’s shaken voice. There’s been an accident, he says, and he needs… Read more: AI is supercharging money scams – here’s what you can do to protect yourself

Every AI leader has a kickoff meeting. Fewer have a meeting where someone asks whether the thing should still exist. That second meeting, the quarterly review where a project either earns its next dollar or… Read more: AI leaders who skip this meeting keep losing budget in Q3

Copado Inc., a low-code DevOps solution provider for Salesforce, today announced it’s extending its Agentia platform with Headless, bringing it directly into developer tools and operational workflows. Agentia is Copado’s artificial intelligence-powered AgentOps platform that… Read more: Copado extends Agentia agentic AI DevOps platform for Salesforce with headless automation

Workers should start with a moratorium against building until our livelihoods and communities are protected For the surging number of Americans who now live alongside constantly humming computer-filled mega-warehouses, it is clear AI datacenters come… Read more: Labor unions must unite against AI datacenters | Tyler Turner

We must stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence Major AI lab CEOs advocated for slowing the pace of AI development this weekend. They are right to be concerned:… Read more: I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner

This essay is over 13,000 words long and represents our most substantial writing on AI safety since the original essay. Over the last few months, loss–of–control incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic have intensified concerns about… Read more: The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents

Sam Altman and Elon Musk this weekend backed a call for restraint, after Dario Amodei called on Washington to slow AI development. Donald Trump, meanwhile, wants the US to maintain its lead over China.

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.

Warning follows series of safety incidents, with committee saying threats include public face-scanning and deepfakes UK politics live – latest updates British lawmakers are demanding more restrictions on the power of AI, warning the world… Read more: UK MPs and Lords call for new laws to tackle AI threat to human rights

Russian mathematician Yurii Nesterov’s work on gradient descent methods is influential in the development of AI technology. Simons Foundation via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-ND Russian mathematician Yurii Nesterov was recently awarded the Gauss Prize for… Read more: Who should own the knowledge that underpins AI technology?

While the publishing industry frets over how authors are using AI, many readers are taking things into their own hands.

Shares in tech firms tumble across Asia with Nasdaq also likely to dip later after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX leaders back call Business news – live updates AI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses… Read more: AI-linked stocks fall after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development

Live translation has long been one of travel’s hardest unsolved problems: a single guide speaking to a mixed-language group, with no way to be understood by everyone at once. Vox Group, a 25-year-old guiding technology… Read more: How Vox Group’s AI-Powered Technology Is Solving Real-Time Translation for Group Travel

A video looks simple when you press play. There is a picture, some dialogue, perhaps music in the background, and a few minutes later it is over. However, with the right use of AI, things… Read more: From Video to Data: How AI Is Transforming Multimedia Content Processing

Deloitte’s 2026 technology trends research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate for AI agents at 89%. A Teradata survey adds the shape of that gap: 78% of enterprises have at least one agent pilot running, but… Read more: Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment

Da-kuk / Getty Images Over the weekend, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own, to slow down their work. Sam Altman and Elon Musk, heads of rivals OpenAI… Read more: Big AI wants to slow down AI research. Is it a safety pause or a strategic retreat?

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival The… Read more: AI-linked stocks fall after call for development slowdown worries investors – business live

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign… Read more: ‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

After apocalyptic warnings about the threats posed by AI, leaders like Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s calls to ‘slow the pace’ Facing a public uproar over Anthropic researchers’ repeated warnings… Read more: AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they?

Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts Futureproofing your career with an AI-resistant degree is a tough ask, says Charlie… Read more: Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?

Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scripts Jack Thorne, one of Britain’s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his… Read more: Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI ‘to cheat’

There are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing To imagine the future as being almost entirely bleak has… Read more: We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney

The world needs more homes. The world also has too much plastic. Perhaps the only thing those two problems have in common is that they’re hard to solve. Atlas Building Composites, a spinout of MIT,… Read more: MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials

MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems. In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The output often must also satisfy nonnegotiable safety,… Read more: New method enables AI for safety-critical situations

Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei has once again called for the artificial intelligence industry to slow down the pace of frontier model development, only this time he’s being backed by two biggest rivals: OpenAI… Read more: Sam Altman and Elon Musk back Dario Amodei’s call to slow down the frontier of AI development

A series of figures in the tech world have been warning about – and even resigning over – the existential threat posed by AI. How worried should we be? With technology editor Robert Booth Ten… Read more: AI isn’t going to end humanity … right? – podcast

A 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania has died of complications from measles, according to the county’s coroner. It marks the third vaccine-preventable, measles-linked death in the US this year. All three have occurred in… Read more: Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says

The Conversation, CC BY-SA Until recently, data centres attracted relatively little public attention. They were largely treated as invisible pieces of digital infrastructure: essential but rarely discussed outside technical and industry circles. But over the… Read more: Data centres have existed for decades. So why are they so controversial now?

The Conversation, CC BY-SA Community opposition to large-scale data centres is growing. Critics are calling for a pause on data centre development, in line with other jurisdictions such as New York, but Prime Minister Anthony… Read more: Data centres in Australia: your questions answered

Disturbing and AI-generated versions of Dr Seuss character have been used to threaten schools and communities Schools and law enforcement authorities in the US are issuing warnings against a viral “Cat in the Hat” social… Read more: US schools and police warn about viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ trend after teens’ arrests

The next phase of artificial intelligence in legal technology will not be defined by a better chatbot or a faster document-summarization tool. It will be defined by whether AI systems can take responsibility for real… Read more: Supio’s long-horizon agents point to a new operating model for law firms

Amazon is catapulting us into the final boss of sub vs dub debates. On Thursday, its Prime Video streaming service announced the launch of a new AI-powered feature that matches actors’ mouth movements to dubbed… Read more: Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue

From the Trump administration to AI experts, plans by the Anthropic boss to boost safety have spawned a largely negative response OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back slowdown on ‘reckless’ AI development Editorial: controlling AI… Read more: ‘Too little, too late’: Critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown

Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job, claiming that neither Anthropic nor his former employer OpenAI is “acting responsibly” and that there’s a real… Read more: OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident

Ex-president urged party at closed-door fundraiser to create sweeping framework, from safety ‘slow-down’ to job losses Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a “public conversation” about AI management and safety in a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser… Read more: Obama reportedly urges Democrats to prioritize safety plan for AI

This intimacy economy is tapping into the deepest parts of our intimate psychological infrastructure The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Michael* is an… Read more: Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough

AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found that users of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound reported unexpected symptoms including menstrual changes, chills, hot flashes, and fatigue. Researchers cannot say the medications caused… Read more: AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400,000 Reddit posts

Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the optical Magnus effect for the first time, revealing that a tightly focused laser interacts most strongly with an atom slightly away from the beam’s center. The unexpected shift is similar… Read more: Physicists discover a hidden “curveball” in quantum light

Scientists have engineered yeast to turn PET plastic and agricultural waste into ingredients for protein-rich, 3D-printed cookies called µBites. Developed partly for NASA’s Deep Space Food Challenge, the system can produce proteins, fats, vitamins, and… Read more: NASA-backed scientists turn plastic waste into edible cookies

Scientists are combining an electron microscope with a quantum computer to squeeze far more information from each electron. The approach could reveal faint details with fewer electrons, helping protect fragile samples that conventional microscopy can… Read more: Scientists are building a microscope powered by a quantum computer

The Indian and Pacific oceans have been climatically linked for centuries, but scientists say that connection is now breaking down in an exceptional way. Ancient climate records suggest volcanoes disrupted the relationship in the past,… Read more: Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceans

A massive worldwide survey of physicists has revealed surprisingly little agreement about some of the universe’s biggest mysteries. No majority backed the standard cosmological model, a leading explanation for dark matter, or any single theory… Read more: Physicists can’t agree on how the Universe works

Scientists found that the 3D organization of DNA is disrupted in several types of brain cells affected by Alzheimer’s disease, altering how important genes are switched on and off. The discovery reveals a previously underexplored… Read more: Scientists find a new layer of Alzheimer’s hidden in the genome

Rare show of unity from rival developers after safety warnings from Anthropic boss and AI researchers The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a… Read more: OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development

Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a puddle. For years now, we’ve watched individuals under the age of 18 become obsessed with social AI… Read more: California, Which Is Creating All the AI That’s Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids

There is something wrong with the tractor. The water-in-fuel sensor, a small device embedded in the John Deere machine that monitors the integrity of its diesel engine, is disconnected. And I’ve got to fix it.… Read more: I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.

Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks like The idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as… Read more: AI will transform capitalism – but how?

Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety. Now, it… Read more: Sam Altman Now Trying to Gain Control of Electric Grid

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it’s driving the data center buildout.

Pilot project in Preston comes with apprenticeship offer for Neets at end of three-week course In a youth centre opposite Preston bus station, the UK government is trying to address two of the greatest challenges… Read more: ‘Really helpful’: the AI bootcamps aimed at addressing UK youth unemployment

In this episode of Science Weekly, recorded in front of an audience at the London podcast festival on 3 September, Ian Sample hears from Michael Safi, the host of the Guardian’s chart-topping podcast about artificial… Read more: Live episode: how AI is reshaping our minds – podcast

Physicists at CERN have found a new way to peer deep inside atomic nuclei and distinguish between two competing explanations for how gluons behave. Using the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, researchers measured… Read more: CERN finds gluons behaving strangely deep inside atomic nuclei

Scientists have uncovered a natural braking system that helps the immune system switch off inflammation and prevent harmful immune cells from building up. Boosting this pathway in people reduced inflammation-related immune changes and sped up… Read more: Scientists discover a hidden switch that shuts down inflammation

Ancient rocks from Western Australia suggest water was reaching deep inside Earth more than three billion years ago, long before modern plate tectonics may have fully developed. Researchers propose that water-rich pieces of crust periodically… Read more: Scientists find water was fueling volcanoes 3 billion years ago

A century-old mystery in Venus’s clouds just became more intriguing, as scientists calculated how strongly the unidentified material behind its dark ultraviolet patterns must absorb light. The results sharply narrow the possibilities and could help… Read more: Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark

OpenAI’s decision comes after dire warnings about rapidly progressing technology and lawmakers’ calls for new rules OpenAI will not go public in 2026, Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview published on Saturday, citing safety… Read more: OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says

Virginia man Jon Ganz was rebuilding his life after spending more than two decades in prison for a horrific crime. Last year, he got a prompt on his phone that his wife, Rachel, believes changed… Read more: Black Box: The Chatbots | 14 days | Ep 2 – podcast

Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools As we hurtle towards a post-human future, the absence of a human rights… Read more: As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever

Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as AI, right? Well, we hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but a new piece from Politico makes it… Read more: Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It

In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to… Read more: ‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

Scientists have discovered that Mercury’s surface contains far less silicon dioxide than previously thought, pointing to an unexpectedly hot volcanic past. The finding suggests ancient lava may have originated from deeper, more extensively melted parts… Read more: Mercury’s surface reveals a surprisingly fiery past

Researchers at Binghamton University have developed a mathematical strategy that can solve Wordle with a 99% success rate. Instead of simply guessing words packed with common letters or choosing the most likely answer, the method… Read more: Researchers find a Wordle strategy that wins 99% of the time

Semaglutide helped older healthy mice live longer while improving memory, muscle function, blood sugar control, and several biological signs of aging. Its effects went beyond those seen with calorie restriction, raising the possibility that GLP-1… Read more: Scientists find Ozempic may slow aging itself

Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a way to protect quantum information using microscopic sound waves. By continuously surrounding a diamond-based qubit with mechanical vibrations, they extended its coherence time by roughly threefold. The same phonons… Read more: Tiny sound waves could help solve a major quantum computing problem

You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection… Read more: College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection

On a sunny morning in June, I walked to work with a quadruped robot beside me. I’ve never gotten more attention from strangers. A bunch of people snapped pictures of my robot dog. Several people… Read more: I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

Influencers aren’t just battling competitors for brand deals. They’re now battling AI versions of themselves Earlier this year, Emily Schuman, the creator of the lifestyle blog Cupcakes and Cashmere, saw a photo of herself she… Read more: Deepfakes are wrecking influencers’ credibility, one fake ad at a time

The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI to imitate their inspirations — one of those inspirations being himself. In an interview with IndieWire, the… Read more: Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that got dumped, went high, shrank in size, and got the blues. First, you’ve heard of getting a feather in your cap, but what… Read more: Mercury Is Shrinking Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Discover

Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.

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As the triple-threat of AI-fueled unemployment, rampant inflation, and further erosion of workers’ rights take their toll, US workers are throwing their support behind a long-neglected institution: labor unions. According to a new survey by… Read more: Support for Unions Is Spiking as AI Threatens Jobs

As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of… Read more: ‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp

Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance AI may be warping the job prospects for students in the previously high-demand subjects of computer science and… Read more: AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm? One afternoon, while relaxing at… Read more: Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights