Interview: The Ethical Puzzle of Sentient AI
Philosophy professor Jonathan Birch says the potential for conscious AI raises a host of moral concerns.
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Promising Assisted Reproductive Technologies Come With Ethical, Legal and Social Challenges – A Developmental Biologist and a Bioethicist Discuss IVF, Abortion and the Mice With Two Dads
New assisted reproductive technologies are creating ethical dilemmas.
Read more...When Artificial Intelligence Becomes a Central Banker
Artificial intelligence is expected to be widely used by central banks as it brings considerable cost saving and efficiency benefits
Read more...The Education System Isn’t Ready for Another Widespread Closure
Can online learning be saved? Lessons from the pandemic school closures.
Read more...Twitter’s Lost Weekend (“Something Went Wrong”)
A lively weekend on the Twitter!
Read more...Are Rocks The Future Of Solar Power Collection?
Why rocks like granite may have potential as thermal storage media.
Read more...CalPERS Refuses to Spend $1 Million, or $1.30 Each, to Prevent Sale of Personal Data of 770,000 Beneficiaries on Dark Web
How CalPERS is inexcusably throwing nearly 800,000 beneficiaies under the bus in a massive data heist.
Read more...3M Offers $10.3B Settlement Over PFAS Contamination in Water Systems – Now, How Do You Destroy a ‘Forever Chemical’?
One big challenge is making sure remediation efforts don’t make the problem even worse.
Read more...Artificial Intelligence and Your Health – Thoughts on Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life
Virtual You is (supposedly) coming! Should you embrace it or run the other way?
Read more...Firms’ Use of Artificial Intelligence: Cross-Country Evidence on Business Characteristics, Asset Complementarities, and Productivity
Evidence of polarised adoption – with larger and more productive firms more likely to use AI – indicates the potential for widening gaps between leaders and other firms and reinforces the need for policies aimed at fostering an inclusive digital transformation.
Read more...What Does a Chatbot Know About Eating Disorders? Users of a Help Line Are About to Find Out
Companies turn to artificial intelligence as a possible solution for a mental health crisis.
Read more...Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Edward Snowden describes how surveillace tools have become more powerful in the past decade
Read more...‘His Peers Thought He Was a Madman.’ The Weird, Wonderful History of Ice
How ice became an industry.
Read more...The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual
Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.
Read more...AI May Be on Its Way to Your Doctor’s Office, But It’s Not Ready to See Patients
The technology misses life-threatening conditions, lacks privacy protections, and tends to “hallucinate,” but adopting the it could make the healthcare industry billions.
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