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.
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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.
Social media algorithms can use millions of different parameters to decide what kind of content is shown to users.
Dubbed the ‘godfather of AI’, Hinton’s early work helped pioneer many of the methods underlying the AI systems we see today.
Artificial intelligence tools are making waves in almost every aspect of life, and astronomy is no different. An astronomer explains the history and future of AI in understanding the universe.
Sexual predators have found a new way to exploit children: taking control of their webcams to record them without their consent. Here’s how the attack works and how you can protect your kids.
AI is going to fundamentally transform how nations wage far. By failing to address it, the defence review leaves Australia unprepared for the future of war.
AI is poised to reshape parts of US culture and society. Have tech developments raced ahead of our ability to understand the consequences?
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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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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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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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Visiting Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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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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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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