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May 18, 2024
The journalism industry has been under immense economic pressure over the past two decades, so it makes sense that journalists have started experimenting with generative AI to boost their …
May 1, 2024
"You do not want a system prone to bias going around with the capacity to kill people," says Nir Eisikovits of UMass Boston's Center for Applied Ethics.
April 25, 2024
If the US wants to protect young people from misinformation and foreign influence, focusing on TikTok is barking up the wrong tree.
January 25, 2024
Some see social media as an uncensored alternative to traditional news outlets, offering seemingly raw firsthand accounts and footage straight from the front lines.
January 4, 2024
A new survey showed a majority of artificial-intelligence researchers think the tech poses a non-trivial risk of human extinction.
January 2, 2024
Is humanity reaching its limits to understand and manage accelerating change.
December 15, 2023
Social media is designed to keep you engaged by getting a rise out of you, not help you think critically or take effective action on political issues.
November 10, 2023
Depending on what you are paying attention to, emerging AI tech will either lead to a post-scarcity utopia ร la โWALL-Eโ or to a dystopian nightmare in which rogue sentient robots have crushed humanity and achieved dominance over the planet. Some would have us believe that such science fiction may become fact. Either way, the...
September 12, 2023
Videos of modified robots with guns have alarmed manufacturers and lawmakers.
July 31, 2023
The real and imminent danger is not so much in AI's capacity to become maliciously conscious and turn on humans as it is in the human capacity to turn its power onย ourselves - or more precisely, on each other.