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Distinctive meanings for a word like “risk” can have a big impact on public messaging, especially when it comes to issues like climate change

Inside a program that helps parents handle precarity while keeping their kids from growing up too fast.

People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond their interactions with the AI

How AI affects our beliefs and psychological factors determine how we interact with AI Image: © kentoh / 123rf.com Recently, Celeste Kidd, Professor at UC…

This week in AI, a startup for SEO-optimized, AI-generated web content, OpenAI releases GPT-4 to the public, and a smart intubator.

When people strongly believe generative AI programs to be knowledgeable and confident, they are more likely to put their trust in them.

Many words and phrases can mean different things to different people

We think about what a penguin is like in dozens of different ways—one reason why we often talk past each other

We think about what a penguin is like in dozens of different ways—one reason why we often talk past each other

The reluctance of people to listen to dissenting opinions often reinforces their false understandings. However, disagreement can be instructive and transformational. Research from UC Berkeley professors and others shed light on why we disagree and how it can refine and strengthen one’s beliefs.