Novel usages of brain stimulation combined with artificially intelligent (AI) systems promise to address a large range of diseases. These new conjoined technologies, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCI), are increasingly used in experimental and clinical settings to predict and alleviate symptoms of various neurological and psychiatric disorders. Due to their reliance on AI algorithms for feature extraction and classification, these BCI systems enable a novel, unprecedented, and direct connection between human cognition and artificial information processing.

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Government alone cannot regulate artificial intelligence; the responsibility is everyone's, including those who develop AI in the first place.

Inside the soul-crushing world of content moderation, where low-wage workers soak up the worst of humanity and keep it off your screens.

We may be at risk of ‘extinction’ from artificial intelligence – but that warning is very convenient to the people making it

Powerful tech figures ask us to look to the future — but they forget that the future belongs to us all, says Data & Society's Jenna Burrell.

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

Google "Johannes Vermeer," and you'll be met with an AI-generated rendition of "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top search result.

The sheer expense of operating AI chatbots could throttle the AI boom.

More and more prominent tech figures are voicing concerns about superintelligent AI and risks to the future of humanity. But as eading AI ethicist Timnit Gebru and researcher Émile P Torres point out, these ideologies have explicitly racist foundations. TESCREAL “So another “godfather” of AI, Turing Award Winner Yoshua Bengio has decided to FULLY align […]

Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and some misleading claims from founder Emad Mostaque.

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Federal and state enforcers in the US “need to be vigilant early” as artificial intelligence develops to ensure businesses comply with existing laws and ensure the biggest companies don’t use their power to kill off promising innovations, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said.

Building Transparent and Explainable AI to make AI more transparent and interpretable to humans, particularly in complex decision-making scenarios.

IAPP Principal Researcher, Technology, Katharina Koerner explores the growing demand for techniques to anonymize or deidentify personal data.

EPIC has just released a new report detailing the wide variety of harms that new generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E pose! While many of these tools have been lauded for their capability to produce new and believable text, images, audio, and videos, the rapid integration of generative AI technology into consumer-facing products has undermined years-long efforts to make AI development transparent and accountable.

By resisting this technology, we retain autonomy as educators, Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira writes.

Footage of potential human rights abuses may be lost after platforms delete it, the BBC has found.

Why are tech billionaires pretending to be scared?

Updated April 19, 2023 Since ChatGPT launched On November 30, 2022 it’s taken the world by storm. People are using it to create poems, essays for school, and song lyrics. It’s also making inroads in the workplace. According to data from Cyberhaven’s product, as of April 19, 9.3% of employees have used ChatGPT in the […]

TikTok accounts are posting horrifying artificial intelligence-generated clips of murder victims — mostly children — describing their own ghastly demise

People don’t like saying AI “ethics”. I think that’s a mistake. Name your problems accurately if you’re going to solve them effectively. #ai #ethics #aiethics

The fine line between persuasion and manipulation: who will protect the user?

One of the evergreen debates repeatedly reignited by technological advancements and their adoption has been the fear of how it will lead to wholesale replacement of jobs. However, historical data and trends show that technology has the potential to create more jobs and not necessarily lead to mass u

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AI-driven art generation can be fun and delightful, but it's also frustrating and disturbing. Two leading tools need a lot of UX work.

One of the leading thinkers on artificial intelligence discusses responsibility, ‘moral outsourcing’ and bridging the gap between people and technology