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An investigation has found that the Instagram algorithm pushes suggestive footage of children to adults who only follow children.

Users are writing Threads posts listing their interests as a way to tell Meta’s algorithm who they want to connect with. According to Meta, these posts don’t influence the feed—engagement does.

Cox believes there is an “exhausted majority” of Americans eager to lower the temperature of political debate.

Next decade going to deliver wild ride of technological advances and dystopian dead ends.

Fear-inciting speech, which isn’t banned by the big tech platforms, is far more dangerous than hate speech.

Gmail’s creator predicts that within a year or two, the new chatbot ChatGPT will completely upend Google’s business, eradicating the search engine result page. You have probably already encountered a few works produced by ChatGPT, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that can do anything from rewrite “Baby Got Back” in the Canterbury Tales …

Can researchers create AI algorithms that are ethical today—and will be safe in the future?

This week, we talk about the recommendation engines on platforms like YouTube and Spotify, and how a pair of US Supreme Court cases is putting them under renewed scrutiny.

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