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Researchers say that's why universities need more AI resources so breakthroughs can continue.

Datings apps are totally cool if you have AI writing your love messages. Match Group might even make some AI chatbots itself in 2024.

Wowee! Relationship chatbots are terrible for your privacy in strange new ways while also being terrible for your privacy in regular old ways.

Apple’s Vision Pro headset suggests one possible future—but there are others.

"Owning our own work, and being beholden to no one but our readers and colleagues — as opposed to say, investors, venture capitalists, or out-of-touch executives — feels like the future."

You didn’t evolve to live in this techno-industrialised world. Find health and happiness by embracing your wild nature

Earth has endured 12 consecutive months of temperatures 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial era for the first time on record, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday, in what scientists called a "warning to humanity".

Blair Attard-Frost on resistance to artificial intelligence, backlashes against the governance of AI systems, and possibilities for bottom-up AI governance led by communities and workers.

A fundamental design principle for techno optimists. How we need to move towards friction in digital culture. By Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters

Yesterday, Senator Ed Markey introduced the first legislation to explicitly refer to the environmental impacts of AI , together with several other members of Congress in the USA. Earlier in January we had been approached for feedback about a draft version of the bill, and we were happy to publicly endorse it. In this post… Why we endorsed the US AI Environmental Impacts Act

Social scientists and humanities experts explore how to harness the interaction, revealing urgent avenues for research and policy.

How one writer's trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.

Following another summer of record heat waves, droughts, floods, and wildfires across vast swaths of the planet, the injuries done to the planet by the Industrial Growth Society have never been so conclusive. As I grapple with collapse, I wanted to speak with Dilafruz Khonikboyeva, an Indigenous Pamiri from Tajikistan, who has lived through it and come out the other side.

How do we find true belonging, and true community in the most literal sense of that word? To answer this question, Dr. Yuria Celidwen, from Chiapas, Mexico, combines Indigenous studies, cultural psychology, and contemplative science in her research.

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Algorithmic media have adopted and adapted divinatory practices and vernaculars of prediction, prophecy, probability, fortune-telling and forecasting – suggesti...

Most product teams commonly adopt a feature-centric mindset, finding them convenient for brainstorming, drafting requirement documents, and integrating into backlogs and ticketing systems. In this article, Andy Budd shows how fixation with features might be holding you back and how making a few small tweaks to your process could make an entire world of difference.

As the Great Unraveling continues apace, the need for radical change will become more apparent, causing more and more people to seek out alternatives. At that point, the winds of change will be blowing at our backs.

AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.

A wide-spanning investigation by 404 Media reveals more details about a secretive spy tool that can tracks billions of phone profiles through the advertising industry called Patternz. Google has taken action in response to 404 Media's inquiries.

Panel was originally composed of 28 men, a move condemned as ‘regressive’ and ‘shocking’

The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

While it’s to be expected that some researchers will remain dedicated to earth shattering breakthroughs, ultimately the crowds at Davos – and at every other AI gathering this year – will be much hu…

We funded 10 teams from around the world to design ideas and tools to collectively govern AI. We summarize the innovations, outline our learnings, and call for researchers and engineers to join us as we continue this work.

The problems with carbon-aware software that everyone’s ignoring. Plus solutions to move forward = grid-aware software. - GitHub - climateaction-tech/grid-aware-software: The problems with carbon-a...

Some friends are ‘close’. Others are ‘distant’. But our spatial descriptions of social life are more than just metaphors

Record levels of heat were absorbed last year by Earth’s seas, which have been warming year-on-year for the past decade

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post skewed coverage toward Israeli narratives, according to a quantitative analysis.

Renowned physician Gabor Maté ruminates on trauma and Jewishness at a time of conflict

Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web