UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
By The Guardian Published on April 08, 2025 The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers. Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands […]
Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China
By The Guardian Published on April 03, 2025 On a misty Saturday afternoon in Shenzhen’s Central Park, a gaggle of teenage girls are sheltering from the drizzle under a concrete canopy. With their bags of crisps piled high in front of them, they crowd around a couple of smartphones to sing along to […]
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
By MIT Technology Review Published on March 25, 2025 Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into cures for human disease? Why do so few drugs that enter clinical trials receive regulatory approval? And why is the waiting list for organ transplantation so long? These challenges stem in […]
Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
By THE BYTE Published on March 24, 2025 Researchers have found that ChatGPT “power users,” or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot. In a new joint study, researchers with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab […]
Scientists Create Sound That Can Curve Through a Crowd and Reach Just One Person
By Futurism Published on March 23, 2025 Consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called “audible enclaves,” where only you can hear a sound without disturbing anyone else in open space — no headphones required. As developed by a team of researchers at Penn State, whose findings are […]
Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him “Number 17”
By Futurism Published on Feburary 26, 2025 Scientific Management, sometimes called “Taylorism” after its founder, Frederick W. Taylor, is the idea that human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient. If a garment factory worker could make a shirt two seconds quicker by standing instead of sitting, then a Taylorist boss would […]
The AI Data-Center Boom Is a Job-Creation Bust
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on Feburary 25, 2025 In Abilene, Texas, some 1,500 people are building the first data center for the Stargate artificial-intelligence venture led by OpenAI. Once it is completed, a lot fewer people will work there. The facility will have about 100 full-time employees, according to the […]
Big Tech data center buildouts have led to $5.4 billion in public health costs
By ars TECHNICA Published on Feburary 24, 2025 Big Tech’s growing use of data centers has created related public health costs valued at more than $5.4 billion over the past five years, in findings that highlight the growing impact of building artificial intelligence infrastructure. Air pollution derived from the huge amounts of energy […]
Startup Investors Foaming at the Mouth To Carve Up Your Job With AI
By Futurism Published on Feburary 21, 2025 If there’s one throughline linking us to our ancestors at the birth of industrial society, it’s the anxiety of automation. Back then it was the robber barons pushing the mechanized loom — and now it’s kids in their 20s founding tech startups. Meet Mercor: the […]