Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? Rather than restricting children’s access to digital life, the EU should regulate platforms instead.

Should the EU ban young people from accessing social media? Rather than restricting children’s access to digital life, the EU should regulate platforms instead.

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

Peter Thiel took his Antichrist lectures to Rome recently, and the pope's AI adviser had a... strong reaction that included fire and a stake.

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Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s is two months old, but teenagers say they have found ways around it.

Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

Regardless of quality research that deploys fear based framing drives public debate on screen time for children.

The ‘Bush Legend’ is bringing us short videos of an Aboriginal person teaching us about native animals. But he isn’t real.

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Grok has repeatedly misidentified video of the Bondi Beach shooting and the hero who disarmed a gunman.

A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.

OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.

We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu

A study from the Oxford Internet Institute analyzed 445 tests used to evaluate AI models.

How beauty and wellness influencers are part of a misinformation ecosystem pushing traditional values on girls.

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

The question is no longer whether AI crawlers are disrupting the internet, but what we can do about it, write Tanu I and Corinne Cath.

A Stanford study reveals that leading AI companies are pulling user conversations for training, highlighting privacy risks and a need for clearer policies.

In India and around the world, worshippers are turning to purpose-built AI for religious worship and spiritual guidance.

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“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

If we do not regulate emotional AI surveillance now, we might soon have to fake how we feel to protect our privacy, writes Oznur Uguz.

Phone bans are now well-established in many Australian primary and secondary schools. Have they made a difference?

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

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Guardian Australia test finds scrolling shortform videos while logged out of YouTube and TikTok quickly leads to gambling, violent and far-right content

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...