Science of the Future
Oxford University shuts down Elon Musk’s favored transhumanist institute, a leader in the ‘effective altruism’ movement
Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’ ...
Can you beat the house in sports wagering? Some people think AI might be your best bet
Advanced artificial intelligence is already changing the face of professional sports. AI-generated analytics and algorithms can more precisely track such metrics as ...
Criminals want quick gains. Here’s how AI is making their life easier
Generative AI provides a new, powerful tool kit that allows malicious actors to work far more efficiently and internationally ...
Headlong rush in health care to embrace AI opens trap door to legal disputes
When AI contributes to patient injury, who will be held responsible? ...
A timeline of artificial intelligence (AI), 1940s to today
A roomsize computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in ...
Is AI infiltrating scientific publishing? Rise of ‘suspicious’ tell words popping up in published papers
Researchers are misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots to produce scientific literature. At least, that’s a new fear that ...
Viewpoint: Designing the future — ChatGPT-directed biotech breakthroughs will help us fight disease, feed the planet, generate energy, and capture carbon
Imagine a world where everything from plastics to concrete is produced from biomass. Personalized cell and gene therapies prevent pandemics ...
AI and CRISPR converge: Artificial intelligence generates gene editing blueprints to solve host of previously untreatable diseases
Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a ...
China and social media disinformation: State-affiliated accounts leverage artificial intelligence to exploit racial tensions in the US, Taiwan and elsewhere
Online actors linked to the Chinese government are increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence to target voters in the U.S ...
Viewpoint: AI is scrambling our view of civilization. Could humans be just middlemen in the evolution of intelligent beings?
Questions are now being asked about whether AI could present a danger to humanity, or if humanity is just a ...
Cows of the future: Bill Gates predicts that genetically modifying beef cows, with the help of AI, could help fight climate change
In a recent episode of his podcast “Unconfuse Me With Bill Gates,” the Microsoft founder offered the prediction that AI ...
Blue soybeans? Orange wheat? How a gene-edited splash of color could make robotic weeding much easier
Genetically engineering crops to be colourful could help farmers produce food without using herbicides, as it would make it easier ...
What is the meaning of life? Artificial intelligence is trying to find out
It took humans 134 years to discover Norn cells. Last summer, computers in California discovered them on their own in ...
Superintelligence, superlongevity and superhappiness: How billionaire transhumanists want to converge humanity and artificial intelligence
Many prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in coming decades ...
‘Pesticides of tomorrow’: Bayer uses AI to develop next-generation pesticides, targeting 2030 for roll-out
They are now doing "computational biochemistry", manipulating virtual molecules instead of plants. In the laboratory of chemist Bayer in Lyon, ...
AI-powered patch that reads throat muscle movements can potentially restore speech for people with voice disorders
AI-powered patch reads throat muscle movements, potentially restoring speech for people with voice disorders ...
AI and race: This bot can sniff out depression based on your social media posts — but only if you’re white
Over the years, scientists had developed methods to identify depression by analyzing the language people use in social media posts ...
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing mental health diagnosis and treatment
Psychiatry was one of my early rotations as a third-year medical student just beginning clinical training. After years of exposure ...
War and artificial intelligence: Who’s to blame when something goes wrong?
States and civil society have taken up the question of intelligent autonomous weapons as a matter of serious concern ...
Can AI accurately guess your sexual orientation by scanning your brain?
A recent study investigated whether sexual orientation can be reliably predicted, based solely on a brief five-minute brain scan ...
Generative AI’s energy-gobbling needs may pose a climate change problem
This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated ...
Risk of breast cancer coming back? AsymMirai AI compares breasts to more accurately predict cancer 5-years out
New way of using AI can predict breast cancer 5 years in advance — and unlike previous AI models, we ...
Curious what chickens cluck about? AI is decoding the language of poultry
Understanding chickens' vocalizations can transform our approach to poultry farming, enhancing their welfare and quality of life ...
Microsoft AI image generator ‘randomly creates violent and sexual imagery,’ whistleblower alleges
Microsoft's AI text-to-image generator, Copilot Designer, appears to be heavily filtering outputs after being warned it would do so ...
Viewpoint: My scientific paper was accused of ChatGPT plagiarism. Here’s how I proved my innocence
A journal reviewer accused Lizzie Wolkovich of using ChatGPT to write a manuscript. She hadn’t — but her paper was ...
NewsGuard/BBC Panorama investigation: Trump campaign uses AI to generate fake images of assumptive Republican presidential nominee with Black ‘admirers’
Artificial intelligence tools have been used to generate seemingly authentic images of former U.S. President Donald Trump with Black voters ...
Viewpoint: ‘AI is already humming along in unseen and unregulated ways that touch millions of Americans who may never have heard of ChatGPT’
A growing share of businesses, schools, and medical professionals have quietly embraced generative AI, and there’s really no going back ...
