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The leading intellect on digital culture believes the recent tech reckoning is corrective justice for Silicon Valley barons

The challenge seems daunting. But we have overcome terrifying dangers before, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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

Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems’ shortcomings can have vast consequences.

As it’s currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible?

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI

Since Vineeta and I founded Wholegrain 16 years ago, we’ve always believed that businesses are a key pillar in shaping our modern world, and therefore must themselves reflect the type of society that we want to live in – a world in which humans and our natural environment are treated with respect. Our aim has […]

We think about what a penguin is like in dozens of different ways—one reason why we often talk past each other

The race to build AI products like ChatGPT is already using vast quantities of energy and water. But transparency about environmental impact remains an afterthought.

David Elliot Berman and Victor Pickard say we must assert greater public oversight, control, and—ultimately—ownership of the internet.

In the early phases of a project a spreadsheet can be a more useful design tool than Figma.

As the European Union gears up to enforce a major reboot of its digital rulebook in a matter of months, a new dedicated research unit is being spun up to support oversight of large platforms under the bloc’s flagship Digital Services Act

AutoGPT and BabyAGI run GPT AI agents to complete complex tasks iteratively.

Companies say the software can help improve well-being, but some experts worry it could have the opposite effect.

Pro tip: when you meet a colorblind person, don’t repeatedly point to things and ask what color they are.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Everybody knows we live in an age of misinformation. But everybody’s wrong, and here’s why it’s our age’s biggest problem

Remind me why, exactly, these guys have so much control over technological innovation?

For some people, particularly marginalized groups, harassment is a chronic problem. But the best tools to help them only work for “acute” situations.

Reduced investment and large-scale layoffs have created dark times for tech globally.

As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone

AI is making a world where it costs nothing to produce anything. What happens next?

Scientists are deciphering how the brain choreographs immune responses, hoping to find treatments for a range of diseases

by Jutta Haider and Malte Rödl

Certain prompts make the chatbot take on an uncensored persona who is free of the usual content standards

We should take AI seriously as a creative tool—here's how