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Chatbots are proving to be productive and useful but they can be unreliable and make mistakes.
In the absence of comprehensive AI regulation from Congress, the executive branch is building on its previous efforts to address AI harms.
Governments have the ability to challenge misuse of the technology, but don’t have a great track record.
Some see Elon Musk as an idiot savant; others think of him simply as an idiot. How did an unelected citizen come to wield such power?
President Joe Biden has issued an executive order to regulate AI. The directives could help avoid AI doom – but they miss some key points.
Algorithms have been blamed for dividing society. What if they could support social cohesion instead?
If a business is run by an AI and it causes you harm, could you sue the AI?
Could the data centres that power the internet be moved to the bottom of the ocean? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
The use of deepfake videos seems to undermine people’s trust in all types of media.
In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
If Israel’s Iron Dome is the best air defense system in the world, how did so many Hamas missiles get through? An aerospace engineer explains it’s a game of numbers.
Effective implementation of existing law can protect us from the risks posed by AI algorithms.
The electronic monitoring and surveillance of employees is on the rise as growing numbers of people switch to hybrid and at-home work.
Experts speculated that very early humans worked wood, but previously didn’t have the evidence.
History suggests that there’s risk of overplaying one’s hand when new technology is lurking.
The design philosophy of the everything app WeChat may seem paradoxical, being simultaneously pervasive and inconspicuous. But this idea of “everythingness” goes back to ancient Taoist philosophy.
Robotics and AI look set to transform how we carry out domestic work, including caring for other people.
If an alert from the federal government popped up on your phone, did you notice it? Did you know who it was from? Did you trust it?
Superconductivity may sound like science fiction, but the first experiments to achieve it were conducted over a century ago. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, credited with the discovery, won a Nobel Prize in 1913.
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