University of Washington professor Emily Bender argues the AI safety debate is too focused on hypothetical existential threats while overlooking harms already happening today. She points to environmen...

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Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

The Nordic country says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks.

The Fair Work Commission will soon require applicants to disclose any AI use with consequences for failing to be transparent.

Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.

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46% say age checks are easy to bypass, and nearly a third admit getting around them It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…

The Minerals Council of Australia has called on the Australian Government to invest $13 million to embed AI tools into federal environmental approval processes, which may drive endangered species clos...

'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: research shows today's leading AI models fail at early differential diagnosis in more than 8 out of 10 cases.…

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