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Figuring out how to regulate AI is a difficult challenge, and that’s even before tackling the problem of the small number of big companies that control the technology.
An expert explain the various concerns that were holding up FDA approval – from potential harmful side effects, to protecting the privacy of users’ brain-wave data.
It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer – which makes sense when you consider what this long-term research would involve.
Meta now faces some A$4 billion in fines related to breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations.
Generative AI, those astonishingly powerful language- and image-generating tools taking the world by storm, come at a price: a big carbon footprint. But not all AIs are equally dirty.
Metaphorical black boxes shield the inner workings of AIs, which protect software developers’ intellectual property. They also make it hard to understand how the AIs work – and why things go wrong.
Montana has announced plans to ban the app from January 2024, making it a potential testing ground for a ‘TikTok-free’ America.
A new book argues our philosophical and intellectual responses to technology have not kept pace with events.
As the drone market continues to expand, a set of rules or standards that can help determine how they are used in warfare is needed, writes a former US diplomat.
Over the years Australia has been quick to point the finger at China – most recently in relation to DJI drones. Instead, we should look closely at our own tech security policies.
Setting up AI-free ‘sanctuaries’ could allow us to reap the technology’s benefits while offering vital safeguards to our cognitive capacities and privacy.
Of the risks posed by AI, overtaking human intelligence isn’t an immediate concern.
Research reveals individuals that score high for vulnerable narcissism are likely to present themselves inauthentically while online dating.
When you stop treating AI as another human, you’ll get on with it better.
We can make better use of technology to limit problem online gambling.
Despite the association of ‘Luddite’ with a naïve rejection of technology, the term and its origins are far richer and more complex than you might think.
‘Star Trek: Picard’ is set 400 years in the future, but, like most science fiction, it deals with issues in the here and now. The show’s third and final season provides a lens on cybersecurity.
The shortcuts made when AI was being developed can guide society’s responses to the technology.
The Snake network has been detected in more than 50 countries, including Australia.
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Director, Center for National Security Initiatives, and Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder
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Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Professor of Engineering and International Relations, University of Southern California
