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Local Governments Are Using AI Without Clear Rules or Policies, and the Public Has No Idea
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn 2017, the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to determine how …
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Chatbots Won’t Help Anyone Make Weapons of Mass Destruction. But Other AI Systems Just Might
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesOver the past two years, we have seen much written about the “promise and peril” of artificial intelligence …
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Smaller Brains? Fewer Friends? An Evolutionary Biologist Asks How AI Will Change Humanity’s Future
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWhat will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of …
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The Unspoken Rule of Conversation That Explains Why AI Chatbots Feel So Human
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesEarlier this year, a Hong Kong finance worker was tricked into paying US$25 million to scammers who had …
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What Is AI Superintelligence? Could It Destroy Humanity? And Is It Really Almost Here?
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with …
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Deaths Linked to Chatbots Show We Must Urgently Revisit What Counts As ‘High-Risk’ AI
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesU.S. teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep emotional attachment to an artificial …
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AI Is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. It’s Underpinned by an Invisible and Exploited Workforce
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn dusty factories, cramped Internet cafés, and makeshift home offices around the world, millions of people sit at …
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Global Powers Are Grappling With ‘Responsible’ Use of Military AI. What Would That Look Like?
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesSome 2,000 government officials and experts from around the world met for the REAIM (Responsible Artificial Intelligence in …
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An Academic Publisher Has Struck an AI Data Deal With Microsoft – Without Their Authors’ Knowledge
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn May, a multibillion-dollar UK-based multinational called Informa announced in a trading update that it had signed a …