How long will a loved one live? It’s difficult to hear, but harder not to know
Even for an experienced health-care professional, estimating the life expectancy of a patient with a serious illness is challenging. (Shutterstock)Planning...
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What is intelligence? For millennia, western literature has suggested it may be a liability
Asking if computers will be more intelligent than humans distracts us from grasping the underlying ethical problem with the humans...
NASA’s Mars rovers could inspire a more ethical future for AI
Rather than using AI to replace workers, companies can build teams that ethically integrate the technology. Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty...
The joke’s on us – how big tech is replicating our laughter online
Christian Bowen/UnsplashHuman laughter as we know it likely developed between ten and 16 million years ago. For context, the stone...
‘Digital necromancy’: why bringing people back from the dead with AI is just an extension of our grieving practices
Generative AI – which encompasses large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT but also image and video generators like DALL·E 2...
Chatbots for medical advice: three ways to avoid misleading information
We expect medical professionals to give us reliable information about ourselves and potential treatments so that we can make informed...
AI won’t be replacing your priest, minister, rabbi or imam any time soon
An android called 'Kannon Mindar,' which preaches Buddhist sermons. Richard Atrero de Guzman/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesEarly in the summer of...
As climate change warms rivers, they are running out of breath – and so could the plants and animals they harbor
The Potomac River spills over Great Falls west of Washington, D.C.. Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesAs climate change...
Amid the Hollywood strikes, Tom Cruise’s latest ‘Mission: Impossible’ reveals what’s at stake with AI in movies
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike has been going for over 130 days. Joined by the Screen Actors Guild-American...
Why ChatGPT isn’t conscious – but future AI systems might be
ShutterstockIn June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company’s LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software...
