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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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).
Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.
The new tools are expected to free up space for workers by helping out with tedious and repetitive task. Here’s how it will work.
If people rely on ChatGPT or Google for complex medical questions, they could come unstuck.
Searching the web with ChatGPT is like talking to an expert – if you’re OK getting a mix of fact and fiction. But even if it were error-free, searching this way comes with hidden costs.
Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with AI technology.
The Online News Act could result in the formation of new agreements between news organizations and digital platform giants, which could give rise to a number of worrying developments.
Trials in US cities of self-driving taxis could have implications for road users around the world.
The explosive viral spread of the grainy but dramatic footage shows the limits of mainstream media ethics.
Justices are weighing the arguments in two cases that have the potential of changing the way social media platforms operate.
Here are the trends on the cusp of transforming the online world.
There won’t be an easy tech fix for the questions about authorship raised by ChatGPT and other text generators.
Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
Users have reported some troubling experiences with the recently released search chatbot.
Google botched its Bard launch, but that’s not why investors dumped shares in the company.
Will it give Microsoft a chance to overtake Google in the search space?
The numbers are less concerning when viewed in the bigger picture.
Small design decisions by big tech companies can play a role in directing our attention.
A mandatory news media bargaining code will force the digital giants to compensate NZ news media for content they host and share. But will it close off better options for supporting local journalism?
Top contributors
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Previously, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Senior research associate, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Management and Innovation, International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University
