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If a business is run by an AI and it causes you harm, could you sue the AI?
The use of deepfake videos seems to undermine people’s trust in all types of media.
Search engines run by generative AI could fundamentally change the online ecosystem.
Pantry food can go bad if exposed to oxygen, but an AI model might help develop more effective preservatives and keep food fresher for longer.
Set in the not-so-distant future, Foe poses questions about humanity and what it means to be human in the face of environmental collapse.
The Turing test, first proposed in 1950 by Alan Turing, was framed as a test that could supposedly tell us whether an AI system could ‘think’ like a human.
Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate matter.
Current laws governing policing don’t take into account the capacity of AI to process massive amounts of information quickly – leaving New Zealanders vulnerable to police overreach.
AI tools are becoming increasingly personalised to cater to our every need. Will outsourcing the handling of information to AI make us ‘dumber’?
A new survey finds working from home is removing barriers for women, but also blurring the barrier between work and the “safe space” of home.
Effective implementation of existing law can protect us from the risks posed by AI algorithms.
AI technologies have been left largely unregulated in New Zealand – and barely discussed during the election campaign. The country needs a clear plan for the brave new digital world.
Robotics and AI look set to transform how we carry out domestic work, including caring for other people.
Two decades ago, the nanotechnology revolution avoided stumbling by bringing a wide range of people to the table to chart its development. The window is closing fast on AI following suit.
ChatGPT and its ilk give propagandists and intelligence agents a powerful new tool for interfering in politics. The clock is ticking on learning to spot this disinformation before the 2024 election.
Authors are furious about finding their works on pirated dataset Books3. Copyright is the usual avenue for redress, but while AI moves at speed, the law is slow – and not designed to combat AI issues.
AI could kill our creativity by making us think too alike. It also forces us to question what “creativity” is, and the different forms it can take.
An AI model shows that building collapses in Lagos are location specific, and soil testing can help to check them.
If we decide that AI helps us think freely, we may need to give it rights too.
Top contributors
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Concordia University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, (currently CEO and Senior Vice President of the PETRA Group), University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney
