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AI v Experts: can I steal real jobs with AI?
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.
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Debate: how should we regulate AI?
The UN General Assembly is discussing artificial intelligence, warning that it is developing too fast for legislators to keep up.
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AI warfare ‘more likely’ to make battlefield mistakes, says Queen Mary University senior lecturer
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”.
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8m
AI extinction threat is ‘going mainstream’, says Max Tegmark
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.
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3m
Artificial intelligence could cause ‘human extinction’, AI leaders warn
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.
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UK competition watchdog launches investigation into impact of artificial intelligence
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.
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3m
Expert AI warning – machines don’t know ‘right and wrong’
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.
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4m
‘TikTok knows so much about you’: Baroness calls for better regulation of social media giants
We spoke to Baroness Beeban Kidron, chair of the Five Rights Foundation which promotes online protection and regulation for children and young people.
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8m
TikTok banned on all UK government devices
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’.
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6m
Number of cars produced in Britain at lowest level in 66 years
The number of cars rolling off British production lines has fallen to its lowest level for 66 years.
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Online Safety Bill: social media bosses to face jail if children aren’t protected
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…
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3m
Meta settles data breach case linked to Cambridge Analytica scandal for £600m
Facebook owners Meta have agreed a £600 million settlement in a US case, over a data breach linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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13m
New AI chatbot ‘ChatGPT’ interviewed on TV
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…
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Plan to make big tech companies remove ‘legal, but harmful’ content scrapped from government’s Online Safety Bill
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.
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Bank transfer scams reach record levels
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.