The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate.

Hello, employees of our company. Today’s essay is about Paris Marx’s new book Hyperscale.

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more

Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...

In their new book, The Big Myth, the authors document the rise of ‘market fundamentalism’ and Americans’ relationship with government regulations

La semaine dernière,

Data center opponents have assembled a potent political force. But without a more expansive vision, there is a risk that this techlash could be co-opted and fizzle out.

Marres returns to the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg to uncovers the origins of tech elites’ ambition to remake the world. Blumenberg traced that ambition back through modern experimental science ...

Amy Westervelt’s new book Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy is a must-read for anyone tracking the machinery of climate denial and delay. The...

OPINION. Miser sur les hydrocarbures se ferait au détriment d’autres activités stratégiques.

Après un triomphe à la Mostra de Venise, le documentaire de Rachel Szor et Yuval Abraham est accablant sur les crimes commis par Israël à Gaza. Il va sortir très prochainement en France.

EXPERT INVITÉ. Les solutions économiques et avantageuses sont pourtant bien connues.

We lack political will to deal with it

Police and prosecutors across France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have opened cases against men accused of secretly filming women and girls with Meta glasses. The only warning victims have ...

Lors de son allocution de la rentrée, Stéphane Pallage a présenté les membres des divers comités responsables de l’organisation du Congrès.

L'équipe de Stéphan Chaix poursuit sa mission visant à favoriser le dialogue entre science et société.

On radical uncertainty, backlash, and hope that actually holds up

Ce séminaire propose d’interroger la question écologique de la numérisation à partir de grands récits critiques de notre époque

Explorez la cartographie citoyenne des centres de données au Québec : inventaire des sites, puissance électrique (MW), consommation énergétique et données ouvertes.

Explorez la cartographie citoyenne des centres de données au Québec : inventaire des sites, puissance électrique (MW), consommation énergétique et données ouvertes.

On heading to a future with a deleted past.

Piratage informatique par une "civilisation" de machines, prophétie apocalyptique d'un "lanceur d'alerte" d'OpenAI et Anthropic, probabilités d'extinction... la semaine dernière a encore été un grand ...

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

Après plusieurs incidents impliquant des agents d’intelligence artificielle, les mises en garde et les initiatives pour mieux encadrer l’IA se multiplient. OpenAI, Anthropic et Google DeepMind envisag...

AI and antitrust, lockups and indexes, annuities, Montessori and sudden wealth syndrome.

“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

One of the biggest obstacles I face in my fight against the scourges that are generative "AI", Big Tech and other fascist-leaning machines, is that most people aren’t aware of the vast critical litera...

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...