Who’s in control?
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AI is poised to reshape parts of US culture and society. Have tech developments raced ahead of our ability to understand the consequences?
Boosting AI transparency and accountability.
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Transparency and accountability must be a priority to prevent discrimination.
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Federal Education Minister Jason Clare says he wants a national approach to mobile phone bans in Australian schools.
Napoleon could have learned from the past.
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We can now store information outside of our brains, and use computers to retrieve it. That ought to make learning and remembering easy, right?
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There’s a lot of overlap in AI-related concepts. Understanding how they are different from each other, and how they relate, is important.
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Losses have surged, and change is needed to better protect Australians into the future.
Privacy concerns over the emergency alert? Here’s what you need to know.
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Emergency alerts system: a lifesaving service or a threat to privacy?
What does generative AI mean for the human need to create, work and seek the truth?
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Generative AI can seem like magic, which makes it both enticing and frightening. Scholars are helping society come to grips with the potential benefits and harms.
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Some some said AI would not just reach human-level intelligence, but would probably surpass it.
You don’t have to see the future to know that AI has ethical baggage.
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Generative AI is designed to produce the unforeseen, but that doesn’t mean developers can’t predict the types of social consequences it may cause.
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Astronomers are hot on the search for new exoplanets – planets that lie beyond our Solar System – which might show potential for sustaining life.
Your phone could soon replace your passwords.
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Passwords are both annoying to use and vulnerable to hackers. Google is moving to support stronger, easier-to-use passkeys (and other tech companies are close behind).
Banning TikTok could unintentionally pose a cybersecurity risk.
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Legislation meant to improve cybersecurity could be difficult to implement and might create incentives for riskier digital behavior.
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We all have a stake in life extension research, since we all age and are all slated to die. But one of the greatest risks it brings is the potential for social stagnation.
Language AI’s have trouble weighing potential gains and losses.
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Language model AIs are smooth talkers, but you shouldn’t rely on them to make important decisions. That’s because they have trouble telling the difference between a gain and a loss.
Words have meaning for people because we use them to make sense of the world.
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Large language models can’t understand language the way humans do because they can’t perceive and make sense of the world.
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Governments around the world have so far taken a light-touch approach. It’s not enough if we want to address the various potential harms of AI.
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The platform has already faced bans in a number of other countries – most of them citing privacy and surveillance concerns.
The new generation of AI tools makes it a lot easier to produce convincing misinformation.
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Powerful new AI systems could amplify fraud and misinformation, leading to widespread calls for government regulation. But doing so is easier said than done and could have unintended consequences.
The California-based startup Replika has programmed chatbots to serve as companions.
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Early research finds that people get just about the same gratification from sexting with a chatbot as they do with another human.