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AI for Science Needs Reasoning, Not Just Data
Eric Schmidt and Suhas Mahesh argue that while narrow AI systems like AlphaFold have achieved breakthroughs, they depend on massive…
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How Kids Feel About AI, in Their Own Words
MIT Technology Review interviewed young people aged 10 to 18 about their attitudes toward artificial intelligence and found more nuanced…
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AI Professors Are Negotiating the New Realities of Academic Research
MIT Technology Review reports that cutting-edge AI research has largely shifted from universities to well-funded companies like Anthropic and OpenAI,…
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A Brown Professor Caught His Students Using AI to Cheat. Here’s What Happened Next
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano writes that after allowing a take-home midterm in his welfare economics course, the median…
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Book Publishers Face Mounting Questions Over Authors’ Use of AI
The Christian Science Monitor reports that book publishing is facing a reckoning over undisclosed AI use, citing the withdrawal of…
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AI Is Now America’s Second-Favorite Financial Advisor. Should You Trust It?
Northeast Times reports that two out of three Americans who have used generative AI say they have asked it for…
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Study of 17 Million ChatGPT Messages Shows How Companies Actually Use AI
A working paper posted to arXiv on August 12 by researchers including Aaron Chatterji, David Holtz, and Prasanna Tambe analyzes…
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Math’s AI Crisis Has a Lesson for the Rest of Us
Artificial intelligence is beginning to solve longstanding mathematical problems, prompting concerns among mathematicians that the field may shift from a…
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No Widespread AI Job Losses, But the Employment Gap for Young Workers Has Widened to 19%
A Stanford Digital Economy Lab study finds that while AI has not caused widespread job displacement across the economy, young…
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AI Needs Public Feedback at Scale Before It’s Too Late
Nathan Gardels argues that AI companies possess the infrastructure to conduct massive global public consultations on AI governance, with billions…
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How Much Longer Can China Afford Cheap AI?
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke argues that ultra-cheap Chinese artificial intelligence, while squeezing the economics of Silicon Valley rivals, is…
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London’s DeepMind Loss Leaves a Very Bitter Taste
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Chris Hughes argues that the shift of Google DeepMind’s power base toward California underscores a broader pattern…