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Everyone likes being told they’re clever, even if it’s coming from an AI chatbot. But their sycophancy has serious consequences for truth and trust.
Data centers need powerful chips, while smartphones need chips that are energy efficient. A supply chain scholar explains why chipmakers’ focus on the former comes at the expense of the latter.
The rapid expansion of critical mineral extraction is trading away human and ecological well-being for technological breakthroughs. There are ways to fix this.
You can change a stolen password or credit card, but you can’t reset your face when your biometric data is breached.
Combining AI with quantum computing could enable doctors and researchers to analyze the human body at an unprecedented molecular level, unlocking breakthroughs in personalized medicine. Yet significant quantum technology hurdles remain before this vision becomes reality.
AI’s apparent inability to generate interesting and unique images and videos is becoming harder to ignore.
People who interacted with different AI chatbots in a study didn’t realize the bots were including veiled advertising in their replies
Retailers are racing to hand your shopping over to AI. Consumers are right to be wary – and not just about privacy.
To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
When people know someone used AI to write a message, they see the person as lazy or insincere.
In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’
AI bots promise limitless companionship – but limits are what makes human relationships meaningful, a philosopher argues.
Estimates of artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs and the economy range from the apocalyptic to the utopian, but the data tells a more nuanced story.
Researchers have found that even people with limited experience in biology can use AI to help them create a dangerous pathogen.
AI is reshaping biomedical research and drug discovery and delivery. But challenges still exist.
Research shows that a hidden American worldview can shape AI advice in ways that are culturally misleading.
For decades, the US seriously pursued the idea of ‘peaceful nuclear explosions.’
Commercial data centers have become critical infrastructure, supporting everything from financial transactions to government services. And critical infrastructure is often targeted in war.
Today’s basic income proponents say cash payments would be good for everyone. In the 1790s, the idea’s inventor argued something else: It was owed to everyone.
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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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Senior Research Fellow in AI Accountability, 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 Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University