An AI-driven political campaign could be all things to all people. Eric Smalley, TCUS; Biodiversity Heritage Library/Flickr; Taymaz Valley/Flickr June 2, 2023 How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School and Lawrence Lessig, Harvard University 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.
Shutterstock May 1, 2023 How close are we to reading minds? A new study decodes language and meaning from brain scans Christina Maher, University of Sydney American scientists have used brain scans and machine learning to reconstruct the meaning of stories that people hear, see, or even imagine.
ktsdesign/Shutterstock December 22, 2022 Not everything we call AI is actually ‘artificial intelligence’. Here’s what you need to know George Siemens, University of South Australia Artificial intelligence has arrived. But what is it, exactly – and what’s behind some of the most splashy AIs we have encountered to date?