Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.

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But they still pose risks.

Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life.

Agents’ technical underpinnings create the potential for breaches that expose the entire mosaic of your life.

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

Closing the gap requires public, standardized testing tools built where the work is happening, as it is happening, writes Jake Taylor.

An academic journal published by Springer has retracted over 200 papers since the start of last month, Retraction Watch reported.

We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping research and scientific publishing at an unprecedented pace, with extraordinary promise. We as editors embrace AI as a tool that can be helpful to researchers...

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

TikTok's global growth has made it a prime platform for both entertainment and political discourse, prompting increased social science research. However, this rapidly evolving research field faces a f...

As colleges and students embrace virtual classes, the ease of A.I. cheating is raising questions about the value of an online degree.

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant...

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Philosophers said the paper’s argument is sound, but that “all these arguments have been presented years and years ago.”

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What The Company Learned About Social Media and Harms to Mental Health from Dozens of Internal Studies

The following is an excerpt from my book ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY where I summarize my thinking on privacy consent:

Obscure tape finds and their stories

Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access.

An entertaining introduction to the clashes between philosophy and AI over the last 70 years, from claims and counter-claims about the ability to implement cons…