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EFF: The Youth AI Privacy Act Creates a Privacy Paradox for Minors
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that the Youth AI Privacy Act’s age-verification and “safe design” mandates would require platforms to…
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Christian Science Monitor: Schools’ AI “Gold Rush” Is Outpacing the Evidence
The Christian Science Monitor reports that the K-12 education technology market built around generative AI has grown to roughly $730…
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New Book Argues AI Adoption Is Accelerating Journalism’s Broken Business Model
A new book, “Journalism in the Age of AI” by researchers Rodrigo Zamith, Tomás Dodds, and Seth C. Lewis, examines…
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UC Berkeley Researchers: Bigger Data Centers Aren’t the Answer for Better AI
UC Berkeley researchers argue in a Nature commentary that the industry’s push to build ever-larger AI data centers is unnecessary,…
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Palantir’s Alex Karp Warns AI Could Become America’s Biggest Driver of Wealth Inequality
Palantir CEO Alex Karp warned that artificial intelligence could become the biggest driver of wealth inequality in America, describing a…
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AI in the Classroom Needs Locked-Screen Exams, Not Just Good Intentions
Eric Smith, a taxation professor at Weber State University, argues in an opinion piece that AI’s integration into education must…
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Does AI Pose an Existential Risk? Five Experts Weigh In
The Conversation asked five AI and ethics experts whether artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity, and three of…
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AI’s Impact on the Labor Market Remains Too Early to Call, Economist Argues
Economist Jed Kolko of the Peterson Institute for International Economics argues that research into AI’s effect on labor markets remains…
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AI Companions May Deepen Loneliness for Vulnerable Users, Stanford Study Finds
A Stanford University study published in Nature Human Behaviour found that AI companion chatbots may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users.…
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Don’t Let AI Developers Hire Their Own Referees
Gabriel Weil argues that proposed independent verification organizations for frontier AI safety create conflicts of interest when developers select and…
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AI Jailbreak Disclosure Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
Rich Barton-Cooper and Adam Gleave argue that researchers lack safe channels to report dangerous jailbreaks, methods for circumventing AI safeguards,…
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AGI Will Set Off an Industrial Explosion
Damon Binder argues that if artificial general intelligence reaches the capability to perform cognitive work comparable to humans, robotics will…