The technology exists to build autonomous weapons. How well they would work and whether they could be adequately controlled are unknown. The Ukraine war has only turned up the pressure.
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The sudden removal of ‘erotic’ features from the virtual friend app has left lovelorn users high and dry.
Confident chatbots could undermine trust and romance - but probably won’t. They may even enhance online dating.
Many view ChatGPT as a death sentence for homework. But beyond all the alarm, could it be the software offers students unprecedented chances to hone their language awareness skills?
How do police forces make artificially aged images of people who have been missing for years?
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.
Research about both social and technical aspects of work can guide critical thinking about when and how business leaders and MBA students might use generative AI.
With a rapidly expanding ‘edtech’ market, it’s easy for teachers and parents to be confused about what’s on offer, how to use it and whether it will help students learn.
Several companies are in the process of commercialising invasive brain-computer interfaces, including Synchron, Neuralink and Precision Neuroscience.
ChatGPT threatens to change writing as we know it. But the Mesopotamians, who lived 4,000 years ago in modern-day Iraq, went through this kind of seismic change before us, when they invented writing.
When you ask ChatGPT to generate content, the default output is in the voice, style and language of white English-speaking men, who have long dominated many writing-intensive sectors.
Bacterial infections are a growing global challenge. This is due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and researchers are turning to AI to develop new drugs.
Will it give Microsoft a chance to overtake Google in the search space?
ChatGPT is fuelled by our intimate online histories. It’s trained on 300 billion words, yet users have no way of knowing which of their data it contains.
Answers are all the rage in the information age. However, to become wise we will need to learn to formulate better questions.
Google is one of a number of companies getting involved in AI music-generation.
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots seem remarkably good at conversations. But you can’t believe anything they say. Sometimes, though, reality isn’t the point.
Can artificial intelligence transform the search for alien intelligence?
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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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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Concordia University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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