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Do you recognise there’s a climate emergency, yet find yourself looking away? Here’s how to get motivated and take action now

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

A sprawling network spread across Congress, federal agencies and think tanks is pushing policymakers to put AI apocalypse at the top of the agenda — potentially boxing out other worries and benefiting top AI companies with ties to the network.

Discovering the hidden formula that determines the roundness of each Apple product.

'Talking about it is simply not enough'

The Superorganism and the future‍ by Nate Hagens, director of the Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future, host of the Great Simplification podcast. R...

The State of AI Report analyses the most interesting developments in AI. Read and download here.

Rest of World analyzed 3,000 AI images to see how image generators visualize different countries and cultures.

The important thing about a wheel is that it turns

A first-of-its-kind scientific experiment finds that people mistrust generative AI in areas where it can contribute massive value and trust it too much where the technology isn’t competent.

According to new research, a scientific consensus is forming for a new economic paradigm that looks beyond growth. This post presents proof…

First published in KOSMOS Journal — Summer 2021

Platforms like GitHub are helping non techies write software, boosting productivity at companies and at home.

Divorce, trouble peeing, and stealing hotel food: Why did a job network become everyone's favorite place for oversharing?

Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I'm not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.

The increasing frequency of interactions we have with AI and automated technologies means it is vital to understand how those things make people feel about themselves. Why? Because how people feel about themselves affects a wide range of success factors, including sales, customer loyalty, word-of-mouth referrals, employee satisfaction, and employee performance. The authors have been studying people’s reactions to automated technology for more than seven years. In this article they focus on psychological responses to AI and automated technologies that they’ve observed in service and business-process design, product design, and communication, and offer practical guidance to help leaders and managers figure out how best to use these new technologies to serve customers, support employees, and advance the interests of their organization.

From .ai to .vc, inside the weird and lucrative marketplace of website addresses.

Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.

Surprise surprise: Bard tries to Google everything.

As more creators turn to AI for their artistic expression, there's also a broader push for transparency around when AI was involved in content creation.

The New York Times and Our World in Data accused of promoting unscientific discourse around economic and population growth

The co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT and GPT-4 – was also a coauthor on the seminal 2012 AlexNet paper

In a world of productivity we rebel with creativity

Zuzanna Warso, Director of Research at the Open Future Foundation, considers upcoming EU ecodesign regulation.

Listen now | How to code a culture of resilience and creativity

The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.

How do various design tools utilise memory? What’s their baseline usage with no documents open? How does memory grow with lots of large documents open?

Kalie M. Mayberry is a social impact researcher and educator at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clean up the web has traumatised moderators