Two decades ago, the nanotechnology revolution avoided stumbling by bringing a wide range of people to the table to chart its development. The window is closing fast on AI following suit.
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ChatGPT and its ilk give propagandists and intelligence agents a powerful new tool for interfering in politics. The clock is ticking on learning to spot this disinformation before the 2024 election.
Authors are furious about finding their works on pirated dataset Books3. Copyright is the usual avenue for redress, but while AI moves at speed, the law is slow – and not designed to combat AI issues.
AI could kill our creativity by making us think too alike. It also forces us to question what “creativity” is, and the different forms it can take.
An AI model shows that building collapses in Lagos are location specific, and soil testing can help to check them.
If we decide that AI helps us think freely, we may need to give it rights too.
Monitoring and protecting the Kasanka bat colony helps protect bats from the entire sub-continent, and thus supports ecosystem services in a wide area.
How do all the different pieces of digital technology you use every day – weather apps, online banking, games and so on – talk to each other? Via application programming interfaces, or APIs.
Artificial intelligence and augmented reality tools are upping the stakes when it comes to online sports betting.
An accurate prediction of survival can enable earlier conversations about preferences and wishes at the end of life, and earlier introduction of palliative care.
Humanity is the only species on earth for whom intelligence is also an ethical liability.
AI poses a variety of ethical conundrums, but the NASA teams working on Mars rovers exemplify an ethic of care and human-robot teamwork that could act as a blueprint for AI’s future.
Laughter is one of the most ubiquitous and pleasurable things humans do, which is why companies online want to know what we find funny.
Training AI systems with more focused data sets can target them to a specific use.
What should you do if you’re tempted to use ChatGPT for medical advice? For starters, don’t use it.
A scholar of digital religion explains why the use of AI isn’t necessarily displacing religious leadership: It is the clergy who are helping with the programming, critical for its deployment.
It might seem creepy but digital necromancy is a natural extension of how we grieve in the age of AI.
Virtual influencers have relationships, explore the world and take risks. The web is their playground – but they don’t exist.
When water warms, it holds less oxygen, and this can harm aquatic life and degrade water quality. A new study finds that climate change is driving oxygen loss in hundreds of US and European rivers.
People can trust each other because they understand how the human mind works, can predict people’s behavior, and assume that most people have a moral sense. None of these things are true of AI.
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