Press — Arvind Narayanan

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Some of these are articles about my work, and some have quotes from me. The line is blurry, so I haven't attempted to distinguish them.

AI hype Princeton University's 'AI Snake Oil' Authors Say Generative AI Hype Has 'Spiraled Out of Control'
VentureBeat, Aug 23, 2023
AI security With AI, Hackers Can Simply Talk Computers Into Misbehaving
Wall Street Journal, Aug 10, 2023
AI ethics A New Attack Impacts Major AI Chatbots—and No One Knows How to Stop It
WIRED, Aug 02, 2023
AI hype AI's Scariest Mystery
Axios, Aug 01, 2023
AI ethics Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Having Meta Give Away Its Most Advanced AI Models
Vox, Jul 28, 2023
Social Media The Advantages —and Drawbacks — of Decentralized Social Networks
Marketplace Tech (podcast), Jul 27, 2023
AI hype It’s High Time for More AI Transparency
MIT Technology Review, Jul 25, 2023
AI hype GPT-4: Is the AI Behind ChatGPT Getting Worse?
New Scientist, Jul 24, 2023
AI hype Not Just in Your Head: ChatGPT’s Behavior Is Changing, Say AI Researchers
VentureBeat, Jul 20, 2023
AI hype Study Claims ChatGPT Is Losing Capability, but Some Experts Aren’t Convinced
Ars Technica, Jul 19, 2023
AI hype What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature
New York Times, Jul 11, 2023
AI hype Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Extinction, Experts Warn
BBC News, Jun 01, 2023
AI ethics Could AI Help Script a Sitcom? Some Striking Writers Fear So.
Washington Post, May 06, 2023
AI ethics AI-generated Deepfakes Are Moving Faster Than Policy Can
NPR Morning Edition, Apr 27, 2023
AI ethics Generative AI: Regulation Is Important for Its Progress
Raconteur, Apr 25, 2023
Dark Patterns Smart Devices Are Trying to Manipulate You With ‘Dark Patterns’
Consumer Reports, Apr 18, 2023
Generative AI Artificial Intelligence: How This Moment for AI Will Change Society Forever (And How It Won't)
New Scientist, Apr 18, 2023
AI security The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
Wired, Apr 13, 2023
AI hype Can AI Chatbots Replace Googling Things? Our Test Finds Not Yet.
Washington Post, Apr 13, 2023
AI security Jailbreaking AI Chatbots Is Tech’s New Pastime
Bloomberg, Apr 08, 2023
AI ethics ChatGPT Advances Bring AI Disinformation Risks to Spotlight
Bloomberg, Apr 06, 2023
AI ethics What Happens When ChatGPT Lies About Real People?
Washington Post, Apr 05, 2023
AI ethics The AI Backlash Is Here. It’s Focused on the Wrong Things.
Washington Post, Apr 04, 2023
AI security Three Ways AI Chatbots Are a Security Disaster
MIT Technology Review, Apr 03, 2023
AI ethics Elon Musk Among Experts Urging a Halt to AI Training
BBC News, Mar 30, 2023
AI hype Why Exams Intended for Humans Might Not Be Good Benchmarks for LLMs Like GPT-4
VentureBeat, Mar 29, 2023
AI ethics The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
VICE Motherboard, Mar 29, 2023
AI ethics Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak: Pause More Powerful A.I.
Fortune, Mar 29, 2023
AI ethics An AI-generated Puffy-coat Pope Fooled Us All. How Much Does It Matter?
Washington Post, Mar 28, 2023
AI ethics Snapchat’s AI Could Be the Creepiest Chatbot Yet
Fast Company, Mar 15, 2023
AI ethics What Are the Ethical Hazards in the Effort to Commercialize AI?
Marketplace Tech, Mar 15, 2023
AI ethics OpenAI Announces GPT-4 AI Language Model
The Verge, Mar 14, 2023
AI hype Lifesaver or Job Killer? Why AI Tools Like ChatGPT Are So Polarizing
Washington Post, Mar 12, 2023
Security Annoying Password Rules Actually Make Us Less Secure
Wall Street Journal, Mar 11, 2023
AI hype CheatGPT or TeachGPT? Educators Divided
Times of India, Mar 11, 2023
Profile He Protects Privacy and AI Fairness With Statistics
Quanta Magazine, Mar 10, 2023
Profile The Computer Scientist Taking on Big Tech: Privacy, Lies and AI (Video)
Quanta Magazine, Mar 10, 2023
AI ethics Meta’s Powerful AI language Model Has Leaked Online — What Happens Now? - the Verge
The Verge, Mar 08, 2023
AI ethics Microsoft's New AI Chatbot Has Been Saying Some 'Crazy and Unhinged Things'
NPR, Mar 02, 2023
AI ethics How Microsoft's Experiment in Artificial Intelligence Tech Backfired
NPR Morning Edition, Feb 27, 2023
Security Stop Using Your Phone Number to Log In
Recode – Vox, Feb 21, 2023
AI ethics Is Bing Too Belligerent? Microsoft Looks to Tame AI Chatbot
Associated Press, Feb 16, 2023
AI ethics How AI Is Changing the Outlook for Illustrators
Washington Post, Feb 14, 2023
AI ethics The Bing Chatbot, as Deranged as It Is, Is a Business Win for Microsoft.
Slate (via the Big Technology newsletter), Feb 13, 2023
AI hype Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots
New York Times, Feb 08, 2023
Social Media Instagram Is Becoming as Uncool as Facebook — and It Has Only Itself to Blame
Business Insider India, Feb 02, 2023
AI hype Decoding the Hype About AI
Hello World (The Markup newsletter), Jan 28, 2023
AI hype Abstracts Written by ChatGPT Fool Scientists
Nature News, Jan 12, 2023
ML reproducibility The Reproducibility Issues That Haunt Health-care AI
Nature, Jan 09, 2023
AI hype OpenAI’s ChatGPT Is Seen as a Path-breaking Chatbot for AI. But Experts Are Not Impressed
Indian Express, Dec 12, 2022
AI hype What Is ChatGPT?: The 'Mind-blowing' Trend Taking Over the Web
Yahoo News Australia, Dec 11, 2022
AI hype Stumbling With Their Words, Some People Let AI Do the Talking
Washington Post, Dec 10, 2022
AI hype AI Bot ChatGPT Writes Smart Essays — Should Professors Worry?
Nature, Dec 09, 2022
AI hype Hello, ChatGPT—Please Explain Yourself!
IEEE Spectrum, Dec 09, 2022
AI hype OpenAI Chatbot So Good It Can Fool Humans, Even When It’s Wrong
Yahoo Finance (via Bloomberg), Dec 07, 2022
Dark Patterns ‘We’re Positively BEGGING You’: How Republicans and Democrats Demand Money Differently
The Guardian, Oct 10, 2022
AI hype The Artificial Intelligence Field Is Infected With Hype. Here's How Not to Get Duped
Los Angeles Times, Oct 07, 2022
AI hype Will AI Make Artists Obsolete?
Prospect Magazine, Oct 06, 2022
ML reproducibility Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
Wired, Aug 10, 2022
ML reproducibility Could Machine Learning Fuel a Reproducibility Crisis in Science?
Nature News, Jul 26, 2022
Web privacy How to Protect Your Privacy When Using Online Therapy Apps
NPR, Jul 18, 2022
AI ethics AI Fails to Predict Crime. But Researchers Won't Stop Trying To
The Washington Post, Jul 15, 2022
Web privacy Passwords: 75 Per Cent of the World's Top Websites Allow Bad Choices
New Scientist, Jun 23, 2022
AI ethics Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’
New York Times, Jun 21, 2022
AI bias Why It’s So Damn Hard to Make AI Fair and Unbiased
Vox, Apr 19, 2022
Security Verizon’s TracFone Customers Complain of Attackers Stealing Their Phone Numbers
Wall Street Journal, Jan 26, 2022
AI ethics Deleting Unethical Data Sets Isn’t Good Enough
MIT Technology Review, Aug 13, 2021
AI ethics This $5 Billion Insurance Company Likes to Talk Up Its AI. Now It's in a Mess Over It
CNN Business, May 28, 2021
Dark Patterns Stopping the Manipulation Machines
New York Times (Opinion), Apr 30, 2021
Anonymity When Is Anonymous Not Really Anonymous?
The Markup, Mar 24, 2020