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In a preprint study, researchers estimate training the model behind ChatGPT would have required somewhere between 210,000 and 700,000 litres of water.

Experts including ChatGPT head Sam Altman suggest AI may pose a risk of "extinction." Altman's OpenAI is among the U.S. tech companies keeping an eye on possible European Union regulation.

Companies that want to avoid the harms of AI, such as bias or privacy violations, lack clear-cut guidelines on how to act responsibly. That makes internal management and decision-making critical.

As a society, everyone is motivated to regulate AI development. For individual companies, though, the opposite is true.

Transparency and accountability must be a priority to prevent discrimination.

Transparency and accountability must be a priority to prevent discrimination.

When exploring the use of AI, methods used to explore the use of social media platforms, allowing technology companies to track you through cookies, sharing your camera, voice, and location are still relevant in assessing the risk of using AI technology.

Computer scientists are overwhelmingly present in AI news coverage in Canada, while critical voices who could speak to the current and potential adverse effects of AI are lacking.

We're rapidly moving into a world where we won't know whether a blog, news article, scientific research paper, or even a book was created by a human being, a mindless AI system, or some combination of the two.

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.