Digital Ethics

A study by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu appears to challenge the prevailing optimism surrounding AI and its economic impact

Companies like Vertiv that can help artificial-intelligence data centers dissipate heat have had gains of more than 600%.

It’s much easier to produce AI-generated disinformation than it is to fact check it.

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We now use AI in more and more areas of our lives. But with its high emissions, should we resist this new tech? AI researcher Sasha Luccioni is working for a greener, more transparent future for AI.

The rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human.

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The search giant's addition of AI-generated overviews could reshape the web.

Mexico’s drought, heatwave and water shortages have gotten so bad that even police are blocking traffic in protest.

Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.

Artificial intelligence devours vast energy while clouding the human wisdom that might save us.

Data centre electricity demand is forecast to double in four years, putting energy grids under pressure.

Researchers tested GPT-4 and other models on their abilities to understand hints, lies, irony, and more.

Scarlett Johansson declined OpenAI's request for her to provide her voice for ChatGPT -- and was "shocked" when it used voice similar to hers.

People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.

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Five systems tested were found to be ‘highly vulnerable’ to attempts to elicit harmful responses

Microsoft's water use and carbon emissions have increased compared to 2020 numbers due to artificial intelligence datacenters.

The report looked at mines around the globe producing minerals like lithium, nickel, zinc and cobalt that are needed for the energy transition.

Microsoft's 2023 emissions were 29.1% above 2020 levels, a function of surging AI power needs.

Microsoft is desperately looking for cleaner and less polluting ways to power its AI data centres. For one of its biggest AI centres that it will be developing with OpenAI and invest $100 bn in, Microsoft plans to set up a dedicated nuclear power plant to power it

Microsoft's Thermal Energy Center at its Redmond, Wash. headquarters. The center taps geothermal energy from the earth to provide clean power. (Microsoft

Illegal mining area in the Uraricoera River, within the Yanomami Indigenous Land

The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation

AI might be cool, but it’s also a big fat liar.

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Big Tech doesn't want anyone to know how much water it's using in its data centers. “When it comes to Google, what’s really striking is the lack of…