Online prediction markets let users bet money on the outcome of real-world events. GQ’s Chris Cohen says recent political chaos has turned the news into a gambling gold rush.
Nicol Turner Lee, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, explores the plight of disconnected Americans in her new book, “Digitally Invisible: How the Internet Is Creating the New Underclass.”
The most advanced large language models show a “surprising” aptitude for deceptive behavior, according to research by Thilo Hagendorff at the University of Stuttgart. At this stage, however, he’s not troubled by it.
Smart devices promise their users utopia, but the impact of this technology is felt far beyond the home, says Kansas State University’s Heather Suzanne Woods.
ECMO machines can function as lungs and heart for patients whose organs are failing. Physician Clayton Dalton says the process can keep a patient going until recovery or a transplant, but it’s afflicted with ethical questions.
Annie Gilbertson, investigative reporter at Proof News, found companies like Apple, Anthropic and Nvidia are using text scraped from YouTube to train large language models. Content creators say they didn’t give consent.
Industry veterans Anika Collier Navaroli and Ellen Pao compare the need for oversight to the role of the FAA in aviation. “We need something to counter the massive power and the massive influence and the complete lack of protections,” Pao says.
