AI models’ outputs need to be properly explained to the people affected.
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Many existing explainable artificial intelligence systems produce explanations that are tailored to individualist, typically western, populations.
AI chatbots restrict their output according to vague and broad policies.
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AI chatbot makers’ restrictive use policies hinder people’s access to information.
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There’s no escaping generative AI as it infiltrates our workplaces and daily lives. Learning what these tools can do will help you understand their full impact.
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With 17 billion internet-connected devices worldwide, AI is subtly creeping into our everyday lives – and making us more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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Modelling bolsters idea that fact checking is a useful defence against the flow of disinformation.
‘Computer says yes.’
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A recent study of the car loans sector showed that a machine learning algorithm could make decisions that were 34% more profitable than salespeople in dealerships.
Deepfake detection software may unfairly target people from some groups.
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New research found a way to both improve the accuracy of deepfake detection algorithms while also enhancing fairness.
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Brain scanners and AI can turn brainwaves into streams of text – but language only captures a tiny fraction of our mental experience.
Pepper the robot bows after it preached to visitors during a demonstration of funeral ceremony with a Buddhist priest in Tokyo in 2017.
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Stereotypes can creep in if ‘culturally sensitive’ robots are not designed with great care.
Can today’s educational technology deliver on its promise?
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The education technology sector constantly offers new products to solve old problems. Will anything be different this time?
Death by algorithm: increasingly AI is being used to identify targets, as in Gaza.
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Revelations by an investigative journalist that Israel is using AI to identify and target suspected Hamas members have shone a light on a frightening new aspect of warfare.
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Meta and OpenAI are working to incorporate planning abilities into their AI systems.
In the movie ‘WALL-E ,’ the technology-coddled humans of the future weren’t doing so well.
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AI has the potential to diminish the human experience in several ways. One particularly concerning threat is to the ability to make thoughtful decisions.
The public needs to be consulted when developing legislation to regulate artificial intelligence.
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The Canadian government’s proposed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence doesn’t address the government’s own applications. More oversight and consultations are needed to protect Canadians.
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The age of AI warfare has arrived – and it’s not looking good.
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What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
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Unlike the risks from AI’s capabilities, the economic risks from new technologies are knowable and can be mitigated
There are benefits and negative impacts to the applications of AI in pornography.
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As AI tools for image and video generation become more widely available, this will have impacts on the production of pornography.
Companies will not be better managed with the arrival of AI — quite the contrary.
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Integrating a rational tool into an irrational environment does not always produce the expected results.
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AI needs careful monitoring and the right policies to ensure it can benefit the fight against climate change.