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When robots appear to engage with people and display human-like emotions, people may perceive them as capable of "thinking," or acting on their own beliefs and desires rather than their programs, according to research published ...
Jul 7, 2022
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The Artificial Intelligence industry should create a global community of hackers and "threat modelers" dedicated to stress-testing the harm potential of new AI products in order to earn the trust of governments and the public ...
Dec 9, 2021
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It started as a desire to spend less time on social media.
Nov 18, 2021
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A trio of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Vanderbilt University has found a low risk for people being tied to photographs on social media sites after having their genomes analyzed by certain institutions. ...
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Ride-hailing services, like Uber and Lyft, are lauded by some for their ability to decrease traffic congestion. Yet, others claim that ride-hailing services increase traffic congestion. A recent study by researchers at Penn ...
Sep 27, 2021
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A pair of health and ethics scientists, one with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the other ETH Zurich, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, discussing the ethics of researchers ...
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The societal impacts of technological change can be seen in many domains, from messenger RNA vaccines and automation to drones and climate change. The pace of that technological change can affect its impact, and how quickly ...
Aug 2, 2021
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Clickbait headlines might not be as enticing to readers as once thought, according to a team of researchers. They added that artificial intelligence—AI—may also come up short when it comes to correctly determining whether ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Robotics
New research has shown robots can encourage humans to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understanding of whether robots ...
Dec 11, 2020
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As facial recognition technology comes into wider use worldwide, more attention has fallen on the imbalance in the technology's performance across races.
Dec 7, 2020
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