Digital Ethics

Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

Planned facility would indirectly contribute 224,250 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum without any mitigation measures

Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

EU regulators want to restrict the use of Facebook and Instagram data to train Meta's AI products.

This article critically assesses the accuracy and desirability of using terms like “collaboration” to describe interactions between humans and AI systems. This article concludes that we cannot collab...

Machine learning to support human language interactions has been unsuccessful when measured by its complex setup and lack of accuracy in…

Kids "easily traceable" from photos used to train AI models, advocates warn.

Even unlisted YouTube videos are used to train AI, watchdog warns.

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Slow Internet is a vision of a more leisurely and inspiring virtual life. Three design principles offer a roadmap to reclaim the lost promise of the Internet.

As people tinker and experiment with it, we’re gaining a clearer understanding of its limitations in creative fields.

The pursuit of building intelligent, superhuman machines is nothing new. One Jewish folktale from the early 1900s describes the creation of a golem, an inanimate humanoid, imbued with life by Rabbi…

Australian man charged for creating fake Wi-Fi hotspots on flights to steal personal data. Learn how to protect yourself from 'evil twin' Wi-Fi attack

Googles utsläpp av växthusgaser ökar med den datakraft som krävs för företagets utveckling av artificiell intelligens. Det visar företagets egen årliga miljörapport enligt AFP.

Figma CEO Dylan Field says the company will temporarily disable its "Make Design" AI feature that was said to be ripping off the designs of Apple's own

Today's LLMs are built on a foundation of data theft, exploitative labor practices, and unsustainable energy and water consumption.

Analog computing has not disappeared, and its intrinsic value of speed and energy efficiency is the perfect match for the programmability and precision of digital computing.

AI facilities and data centers use substantial water to cool their servers and could consume 25% of U.S. power by 2030.

Exclusive: Two-thirds of housing benefit claims marked as high risk in last three years were legitimate, figures show

A new report suggests the Rwandan government’s backers on X have been using Large Language Models to flood the platform

We're talking about the Turing Test, the grandmother of all tests for AI sentience. Joining us are AI researchers Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender, hosts of the Mystery AI Hype 3000 podcast. We discuss why the Turing Test is so influential in both fiction and reality – and why it is completely wrong.

It’s bot versus bot on the hiring front lines, as job hunters turn to new tools to counter the AI that’s screening their applications.

LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. We follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its contents, implications and entanglements.

New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

Central Ohio has become a big hub for data center facilities, but they have the potential to put serious strain on the electric grid and other natural resources.

Cheryl Tevis Bubbling up beneath the surface of the Iowa Utility Board’s pending decision whether Summit Carbon’s proposed pipeline is justified by “public convenience and necessity” is the equally critical question of whether granting permits allowing Summit to siphon significant amounts of public water resources meets the state’s legal standard of being “put to beneficial

New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.