AI clones made from user data pose uncanny risks
Personal data can be used to create an AI that can mimic a user's behaviour. (Shutterstock)Imagine, if you will, a...
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How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy
An AI-driven political campaign could be all things to all people. Eric Smalley, TCUS; Biodiversity Heritage Library/Flickr; Taymaz Valley/Flickr, CC...
Are rich people more intelligent? Here’s what the science says
From White Lotus to Succession, there’s high demand for television dramas about the super rich. The characters on these shows...
Holograms and AI can bring performers back from the dead – but will the fans keep buying it?
A hologram of Buddy Holly projected on stage at Madrid's Teatro La Estación in 2021. Getty ImagesFans can mourn the...
No, AI probably won’t kill us all – and there’s more to this fear campaign than meets the eye
Better Images of AI / Alan Warburton, CC BY-SADoomsaying is an old occupation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a complex subject....
AI can replicate human creativity in two key ways – but falls apart when asked to produce something truly new
The 'Portrait of Edmond de Bellamy' was produced by a generative adversarial network that was fed a data set of...
If we’re going to label AI an ‘extinction risk’, we need to clarify how it could happen
This is not the first time that AI has been described as an existential threat. Nouskrabs/ShutterstockThis week a group of...
Automation risks creating a two-tier workforce of haves and have-nots
Workplaces could become "anti-human": centred around technology rather than people. PaO_STUDIO / ShutterstockThe recent news that BT would reduce its...
Ankylosing spondylitis: machine learning could pave the way for early diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis
An X-ray image comparing a healthy spine and one showing signs of ankylosing spondylitis. Suttha Burawonk/ShutterstockAnkylosing spondylitis (AS) is the...
Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities – it depends on what doctors use them for
An increasing number of health care decisions rely on information from algorithms. Tom Werner/Digital Vision via Getty ImagesHealth practitioners are...
