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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.
There’s a blood alcohol limit for legally being permitted to drive. Should we have a ‘fatigue limit’?
Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.
In an update of one of the most famous experiments in physics, scientists have used ‘slits in time’ to explore the properties of light and ultrafast optical materials.
The platform has already faced bans in a number of other countries – most of them citing privacy and surveillance concerns.
New research finds societies are much more likely to have supernatural beliefs that concern ‘natural’ phenomena, such as extreme weather events.
Strange barren patches in the Australian outback have been long-studied by scientists – but until recently, nobody had consulted the Aboriginal people who live among them.
A ‘second gold rush’ has seen amateur and professional miners return to Victoria with modern technology.
Artificial general intelligence has suddenly become a pressing topic – but there’s more than one way to look at this issue.
Pranking your intimate partner to gain clout online is not as innocent as it might seem.
For the first time, researchers have shown plants making sounds that can be heard up to a few metres away – just not by human ears.
From New York to Tokyo, Melbourne to Venice – honeybee hives have revealed the unique genetic signatures of cities, even providing insights into human health.
Families living on Mornington Island have to make compromises due to a lack of digital services – including missing out on cultural activities on Country .
The aurora is one of nature’s most spectacular sights, a dazzling glow in the upper atmosphere driven by space weather.
Death by exhaustion, cannibalism, complete body fusion: across the animal kingdom, mating takes many strange forms.
Remember: the presence of something does not automatically mean it is harmful. It is the dose that makes the poison.
For years, astronomers have been detecting incredibly powerful pulses from the cosmos, without a confirmed source. Recent advances in astronomy are getting us closer to the solution.
Neuralink might get all the press – but these unsung heroes are pioneering brain-computer interface technology.
Mammals have evolved flight more often than birds. By studying the genes of the sugar glider, biologists have found a ‘molecular toolkit’ for flight membranes that’s been in us all along.
AI chatbots are on the rise in China – but their abilities and purpose may be quite different from the products of US tech giants.
As continents grind across ‘hotspots’ in Earth’s mantle, we can get volcanoes erupting on the surface. Studying these can reveal much about our planet’s evolution.
Beethoven was afflicted with health conditions for much of his adult life, and wished for their cause to be discovered and made public.
AI tools are now generating content that’s difficult to distinguish from reality.
The autonomous vehicle revolution was, according to its proponents, meant to have transformed daily travel by now. But they underestimated the task of developing a safe, truly driverless vehicle.