With days to go before the presidential election, Latino voters face a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the AI age: chatbots generating unfounded claims in Spanish about voting rights. My latest w Gisela Salomon apnews.com/article/ai-cha…

A pocos días de las elecciones presidenciales, los votantes latinos enfrentan un aluvión de anuncios publicitarios en español y una nueva forma de mensajes políticos en la era de la IA: chatbots que generan información infundada sobre los derechos electorales. Con Gisela Salomon

With just days to go before the presidential election, Latino voters are facing a barrage of targeted ads in Spanish and a new source of political messaging in the artificial intelligence age: chatbots generating unfounded claims about voting rights. apnews.com/article/ai-cha…

We’ve been counting the vote and calling races The Associated Press for more than 175 years. As polls close tonight, you’ll be able to follow along with the count on our race results page. apnews.com/projects/elect…

“Engineers and researchers said they had never seen another AI-powered transcription tool hallucinate as much as Whisper.” | Hilke Schellmann on OpenAI’s Whisper for The Associated Press (w/ Garance Burke) apnews.com/article/ai-art…

AP Exclusive: Trump will return to power with a raft of tech tools at his disposal that could help deliver his promised immigration crackdown — including surveillance and AI technology Biden's administration already uses. w/ Sarah Parvini (سارا) Garance Burke apnews.com/article/artifi…

NEW: An October letter from DHS obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how surveillance and AI tools help make life-altering decisions for immigrants, including whether they should be detained or surveilled. Story w/ Garance Burke @BedaynJesse

NEW: An October letter from DHS obtained exclusively by The Associated Press details how surveillance + AI-powered tools are used in life-altering decisions about immigrants' fates, models used under Biden + soon by the Trump administration. W/ Sarah Parvini (سارا) @BedaynJesse apnews.com/article/artifi…

Many medical centers use an AI-powered tool called Whisper to transcribe patients' interactions with their doctors. But researchers have found that it sometimes invents text, referred to in the industry as hallucinations, raising the possibility of errors like misdiagnosis.

"Concerns about its use": The Associated Press journalist Garance Burke recounts how AI transcription tool ‘hallucinates’ medical interactions on PBS News: pbs.org/video/hallucin…

“This particular AI powered transcription tool makes things up that can include racial commentary, sometimes even violent rhetoric.” | Hilke Schellmann’s co-reporter Garance Burke on their recent work for The Associated Press, interviewed for PBS News pbs.org/newshour/show/…

.The Associated Press journalist Garance Burke to discuss AI and journalism on Online News Association webinar, today at noon ET: buff.ly/42JVeO4

U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track + kill more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza + Lebanon thru a spike in AI + computing services, raising concerns about tech’s role in who lives + dies in war. My latest w Michael Biesecker Sam Mednick apnews.com/article/israel…

AI models made in the U.S. are being used by Israel's military, an AP investigation finds. It’s one of the first times the technology has been used in active warfare. apnews.com/article/israel…

NEW w Sam Mednick Michael Biesecker: U.S. tech giants quietly empowered Israel to more quickly track + kill alleged militants in Gaza/Lebanon. The number of civilians killed has also soared, fueling fears that #AI models are contributing to deaths of innocents. apnews.com/article/israel…

Five Microsoft employees were ejected from a meeting with the company’s CEO Satya Nadella for protesting contracts to provide artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the Israeli military. The protest came after an investigation by The Associated Press apnews.com/article/israel…

👇ICYMI, my latest w Byron Tau Joshua Goodman Brian Slodysko

🏆 Honored that our The Associated Press team was recognized with 1st place in the National Headliner Awards for political coverage for "The AI Campaign" series, revealing the influence of artificial intelligence in the 2024 election cycle. Thanks to the judges for their comments. 🏆

.The Associated Press named finalist in 3 Pulitzer Prize categories for coverage of Trump assassination attempt, investigation on police use of force, Israel-Gaza war images, via The Pulitzer Prizes: buff.ly/HhO5ado

ICYMI: Microsoft acknowledged it provided AI and cloud computing to Israeli military during the war in Gaza but says it found no evidence it was used to harm people. The acknowledgment confirms prior The Associated Press reporting. My latest w Michael Biesecker Sam Mednick. apnews.com/article/micros…