artificial intelligence

UT San Antonio’s new College of AI, Cyber and Computing is being positioned as a major workforce engine for a city increasingly focused on cybersecurity, data science, artificial intelligence and advanced computing.

Tech writer Joanna Stern used AI to read medical results, respond to texts and serve as her therapist. She says her emotional connection to it was unsettling. Her new book is I Am Not a Robot.

Recent breakthroughs have accelerated worries that AI may soon replace humans in the workforce on a massive scale. Two experts talk through how and whether that could happen.

"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.

Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.

A young Texan recently committed suicide after allegedly being encouraged to end his own life by an AI chat bot. Public safety advocates are calling for restrictions and common-sense AI safeguards on chatbots as this technology is being embraced by more and more people.

Humanity has never seen anything like artificial intelligence. This new transformation technology is already changing the economy, And as Big Tech pushes for Super AI there are many calling for government oversight, regulation and protections for workers and the environment. But Big Tech is also spending big on politics to lobby so that its growth will remain unchecked.

This week on Texas Matters: The demands of massive AI data centers are growing every day.ERCOT projects the state’s grid will need to double in the next five years to meet the demands of AI.AI also uses a lot of water. It’s projected AI will consume nearly 7% of the state’s water supply by the year 2030, a significant drain on a state already dealing with water scarcity.

The latest version of OpenAI's Sora can quickly turn text prompts and simple images into studio quality videos, which left the entertainment industry deeply uneasy.

With the launch of Sora 2, OpenAI has opened a new chapter in addictive, and some worry dangerous, AI video content.