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“augmented eternity,” in which academics and technologists explore ways the human mind might be d...
In a recent policy change, Google has banned deepfake-generating AI projects from Colab, its platform for hosting and running arbitrary Python code. (2022)
An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. (2022)
This is the first of several articles I intend to write about ethical AI. I’ll be focussing on bias and explainability in AI, and how these two con... (2022)
Nvidia's Megatron AI recently took the floor at the celebrated Oxford Union to debate whether AI can ever be ethical. (2021)
Google Street View has become a surprisingly useful way to learn about the world without stepping into it. People use it to plan journeys, to explo... (2021)
Getting a good college education turns out to be a lot easier than it used to be. It’s not that the courses have gotten any easier, but academic ch... (2021)
Meet superspreader Chegg, which has become the most valuable ed-tech company in America by connecting college students to test answers on demand. (2021)
This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, ... (2020)
Elon Musk -founded Neuralink has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind of interface between the human bra... (2020)
Could a simple literary exercise make physicians more caring? "...could studying literature also be good training for medicine? A new paper in L... (2018)
Just because someone's invented something, it doesn't mean that they're happy with the end result. (2015)
A study has highlighted the risks inherent in using historical data to train machine-learning algorithms to make predictions.The news: An algorithm... (2020)
As fears of coronavirus spread, so does price gouging for masks, which are in limited supply. (2020)
Both highly intelligent and a culinary delicacy, the animals are at the center of a controversy that pits the conservation of wild octopuses agains... (2020)
The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism. (2020)
Which tech companies are really doing the most harm? Here are the 30 most dangerous, ranked by the people who know. The 30 most dangerous corporat... (2020)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)
Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker Practice Fusion ensured that addictive drugs were on the menu ... (2020)
_The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed._ ![Ross LaJeunesse, Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in Main... (2020)
Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were com... (2019)
The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial. (2019)
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. (2019)
The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures. (2019)
Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School. How Gaggle Surveils Every Document, Email, Chat, And Picture That Students Create Gaggl... (2019)
A growing number of districts are deploying cameras and software to prevent attacks. But the systems are also used to monitor students—and adult cr... (2019)
The ethics of DNA editing are being established years after CRISPR technology has been available to the public... (2019)
Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran. "The lus... (2019)
Tech moguls see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not. (2019)
Octopuses stand out among invertebrates for their complex behavior. They are capable of problem-solving, mimicking their surroundings using color c... (2019)
In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El País.D... (2019)
This biologist built a living robot from frog cells — and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine:This interview is an episode … (2023)
Many of our major advancements are thanks to some modifications made technologically, medically, and even with our DNA. However, these new technolo... (2023)
Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works. (2023)
The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)
Watch four more talks by Malcolm Gladwell here! In this short keynote from How To Academy... (2021)
Some remarks about their second "Waking Up" podcast together.If you would like to support this endeavor, do consider making a one off donation by c... (2021)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the early days of baseball, sign-stealing was almost like a game within the g... (2020)
An unregulated facial recognition app can probably tell the police your name, and help them find out where you live and who your friends are. (2020)
Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential pr... (2019)
This paper highlights what Google considers to be some of the critical current questions in the debate on AI governance. We hope it is useful as a ... (2019)
It’s the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? On Should This Exist? we invite creators of radical new technologies to s... (2019)
Ethical OS Toolkit As technologists, it’s only natural that we spend most of our time focusing on how our tech will change the world for the better... (2018)