Technology

AI is going to take our jobs – that’s a worry for people around the world, and even more so since powerful tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and Bard have exploded into our workplaces.

The UN General Assembly is discussing artificial intelligence, warning that it is developing too fast for legislators to keep up.

We spoke to Dr Elke Schwarz – she is an associate professor of political theory and the author of “Death machines: The ethics of violent technologies”.

We speak to Max Tegmark, a professor at MIT and a signatory to the warning of the dangers of AI as an extinction level threat to humanity.

As apocalyptic warnings go, today is right up there. Some of the world’s most influential tech geniuses and entrepreneurs say AI risks the extinction of humanity.

The competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the impact of artificial intelligence. The Competition and Markets Authority says it will look into the effect of AI on consumers, businesses and the economy and whether new controls are needed.

They call him the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence, a pioneer of the technology but Dr Geoffery Hinton has quit his job at Google – saying he was worried about the dangers of AI.

We spoke to Baroness Beeban Kidron, chair of the Five Rights Foundation which promotes online protection and regulation for children and young people.

Millions of teenagers, not to mention cabinet ministers, love to post on the social media app TikTok.  But today the British government said it would ban TikTok from government phones over fears that there could be a risk to ‘sensitive data’. 

The number of cars rolling off British production lines has fallen to its lowest level for 66 years.

Social media bosses who repeatedly fail to protect children from online harms will face jail, after the Government was forced to head off a potential rebellion by Tory backbenchers. Under the changes to the Online Safety Bill, executives whose platforms fail to block content involving abuse, suicide and self harm could get two years in…

Facebook owners Meta have agreed a £600 million settlement in a US case, over a data breach linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

ChatbotGPT is a new artificial intelligence programme designed to simulate human conversation and tackle complex questions. It’s made by Open AI foundation, a tech-startup co-founded by Elon Musk, and it draws on text taken from a variety of sources on the internet and its creators say it has learned how to answer academic questions, and…

A plan to make big tech companies remove ‘legal, but harmful’ content has been scrapped from the Government’s Online Safety Bill – to the dismay of campaigners who’ve described it as a hugely backward step. 

It’s a fraud which is costing banks and consumers millions of pounds every month – cases of Authorised Push Payment fraud have reached record levels.