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Intellectual property law wasn’t written with AI in mind, so it isn’t clear who owns the images that emerge from prompts – or if the artists whose work was scraped to train AI models should be paid.
The EU’s attempt to regulate AI is focused on specific risks posed by the technology.
We humans like to think that our language is original, but we absorb large amounts of it from others and liberally repeat and remix what we hear – just as language AIs do.
Strengthening democratic values in the face of AI will require coordinated international efforts between industry, government and non-governmental organizations.
With fine-tuning, the approach correctly balances the risks with the need to encourage innovation.
Science minister Ed Husic says about AI: 'If we get it right, there is a potential for huge benefit''
While the technologies being explored under ‘pillar two’ of the AUKUS security pact are becoming clearer, New Zealand’s policy on autonomous weapons and military AI has become increasingly murky.
Rishi Sunak is pitching the UK as a hub for AI regulation, but some experts doubt its appeal.
Handwriting is not just about forming letters. It also develops fine motor skills, helps with memory and even wellbeing.
Schools are blocking access to ChatGPT on their computers to try to prevent students from cheating. Two experts on academic cheating offer a very different strategy.
If anyone ever read this stuff, they wouldn’t have time to do anything else.
User-generated data can be used to build AI clones who can sound and behave like the source individual.
Artificial intelligence looks like a political campaign manager’s dream because it could tune its persuasion efforts to millions of people individually – but it could be a nightmare for democracy.
The artificial intelligence boom means a multi-trillion dollar industry is coming into existence before our eyes. With great opportunity come great risks, as two important new Australian reports show.
A study of fan reactions to ABBA’s virtual Voyage tour highlights the ethical questions being raised by advances in holographic technology.
I study artificial general intelligence, and I believe the ongoing fearmongering is at least partially attributable to large AI developers’ financial interests.
AI is starting to make us doubt whether humans have a monopoly on creativity. Two scholars argue AI’s use scenarios may be endless but that they require another form of creativity: curation.
The latest warning by AI experts is bound to create alarm, so its authors should be more specific and clarify their concerns.
Wakefulness drugs like Modafinil point to a new frontier of technosleep driven by personal goals rather than medical need.
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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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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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