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When it comes to buying sex toys, diarrhea medication and acne cream, consumers like the impersonal touch.
Workplace productivity and educational challenges get the headlines, but it turns out that ChatGPT and its ilk are more likely to be used for household tasks.
Over half of older adults report using AI, but many also struggle with trusting the technology.
Mental health chatbots promise therapy at your fingertips, but can AI ease anxiety and depression, or are we confusing conversation with care?
Being ‘AI fluent’ is quickly becoming as important as being proficient in office software once was.
The tools that are meant to help make AI safer could actually make it much more dangerous.
AI avatars of dead people are teaching courses and testifying in court. Even with the best of intentions, the emerging practice of AI ‘reanimations’ is an ethical quagmire.
AI’s advantage over humans comes down to 4 dimensions: speed, scale, scope and sophistication. Whether AI can replace you depends on how much one or more of the S’s matter in what you do.
AI tools that provide information to you also gather lots of information from you and may provide it to third parties.
Generative AI models are like auto-complete on steroids. Bots learned to converse by reading text scraped from internet sites – and they’re not always accurate.
Many of the world’s languages are at risk of extinction. However, researchers are developing AI tools they hope can safeguard languages for future generations.
The rollout will leave parents playing a game of whack-a-mole with new technologies as they try to keep their children safe.
Nomi AI is marketed as an “AI companion with memory and a soul”. But it has a much darker side which highlights the urgent need for enforceable AI safety standards.
Critics worry AI search features could decrease traffic to their websites if users rely on them too heavily and ignore the website links displayed in the search results.
Young people have led makeovers of the concept of love before. But relationships with AI chatbots leave out the compromises and effort of real relationships.
The upside to this war of words? More competition is boosting consumer choice, including with OpenAI’s release over the weekend of a new AI model, o3-mini.
The rubber met the road for language AIs in 2024. The hard realities led to new, smaller models and safety measures for the big ones. 2024’s R&D also set the stage for the next big thing: AI agents.
The latest buzz phrase coming from technology companies is ‘AI agents.’ A computer scientist explains what that means – and how ChatGPT and your Roomba fit into the picture.
AI chatbots are increasingly being used in the classroom. But different styles of communication appeal to different students, and this can guide how the technology is rolled out.
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; University of Toronto
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Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
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Research Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Research fellow, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate, Faculty of Engineering and Design, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Lecturer in Strategy, Cambridge Judge Business School
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PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, University of Birmingham
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Research Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Electrical and Computer and Software Engineering, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy, Concordia University
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Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau