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Handwriting is not just about forming letters. It also develops fine motor skills, helps with memory and even wellbeing.
Generative AIs may make up information they serve you, meaning they may potentially spread science misinformation. Here’s how to check the accuracy of what you read in an AI-enhanced media landscape.
Generative AI, those astonishingly powerful language- and image-generating tools taking the world by storm, come at a price: a big carbon footprint. But not all AIs are equally dirty.
One researcher’s experience from a quarter-century ago shows why bias in AI remains a problem – and why the solution isn’t a simple technical fix.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, people now need to pause and wonder whether it actually hatched from an egg.
AI is poised to reshape parts of US culture and society. Have tech developments raced ahead of our ability to understand the consequences?
Do you own a literary work that ChatGPT helped you write? Does OpenAI? The legal questions are thorny, and the answers unclear.
Artificial intelligence is escalating the battle between spam senders and spam blockers. Recent advances could mean more convincing pitches to get you to click, buy and give up personal information.
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.
Generative AI is designed to produce the unforeseen, but that doesn’t mean developers can’t predict the types of social consequences it may cause.
Language model AIs are smooth talkers, but you shouldn’t rely on them to make important decisions. That’s because they have trouble telling the difference between a gain and a loss.
Large language models can’t understand language the way humans do because they can’t perceive and make sense of the world.
A recent open letter calling for a temporary artificial intelligence development hiatus is more concerned with hypothetical risks about the future than the issues that are right in front of us.
In a world of increasingly convincing AI-generated text, photos and videos, it’s more important than ever to be able to distinguish authentic media from fakes and imitations. The challenge is how.
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.
When OpenAI claims to be “developing technologies that empower everyone,” who is included in the term “everyone?” And in what context will this “power” be wielded?
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.
Rather than seeing artificial intelligence as the cause of new problems, we might better understand AI ethics as bringing attention to old ones.
New technologies are often surrounded by hopeful messages that they will alleviate poverty and bring about positive social change. History shows these assumptions are often misplaced.
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Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
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Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor of Computer Science, Affiliate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor Emerita of Linguistics, American University
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Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Curriculum, Deakin University
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Professor of English Language and Literature; University Research Chair & Founding Director, Critical Media Lab, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy, Concordia University
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Concordia University
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer of Computing and Security, Edith Cowan University
