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Uncertainty is common in medicine, and AI isn’t very good at navigating it.
When AI is used to manufacture fake endorsements, copyright law doesn’t do enough to protect celebrities, influencers and other public figures.
A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.
AI models can simulate the answers thousands of people would provide to a survey, but the results aren’t a reliable measure of what real people would actually say.
Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.
AI is now the machine deciding whether your payment goes through. And when it makes a mistake, the system isn’t designed to tell you why.
Anthropic developed an AI interviewer it claims can help social scientists conduct research at scale. But AI models lack the human qualities that make qualitative research unique.
Tracking hate speech online is challenging even when terms are explicit. Coded speech is harder to detect – but pairing AI tools with human research teams can help.
Many companies today overpromise what they can do with AI. They should learn from efforts to combat greenwashing and tighten standards.
Cubans are using AI image generators to imagine US intervention in their country. The results look straight out of the 1890s.
Large language models can uphold falsehoods they or human users state, despite being presented with evidence to the contrary.
What should we call the words that this ultramodern technology produces? For clues, a professor looks to some of the world’s earliest authors.
Our engagement with AI is at a crossroads: Will we treat it as an all-knowing oracle or as a tool to expand our own way of seeing the world?
Today’s AI systems are powerful, and it’s natural to see them as having humanlike intelligence. Shaking that illusion is important – and difficult to do.
Opponents of guaranteed-income programs often argue that recipients will simply take the money and be less motivated to do any work whatsoever.
Danger arises when law enforcement believes that AI models are retrieving certainties rather than generating likelihoods.
A slew of companies have announced plans to add AI agents to their workforces. Employees can take steps to handle the changes.
AI is making its way into the courtroom, but it can never replicate the moral legitimacy of a human jury.
Pope Leo is following the teachings of Francis on human dignity and applying them to ongoing international crises, argues a scholar of global Catholicism.
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; University of Toronto
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Philosophy and Director of Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Director of Sydney Executive Plus, Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University
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