To contain the opioid crisis, health and law enforcement agencies have turned to technology to monitor prescription data. Experts have raised questions and worries about these systems.
More and more of our digital lives is stored in the dense global network of data centers. As demand for cloud storage and computing grows, so do water consumption and other environmental impacts.
The platform’s change of policy represents the first “off switch” for potentially harmful homepage recommendations, says Katie Paul of the Tech Transparency Project. She’d like to see controls applied to up-next videos and across social media.
“AI literacy,” or the ability to see through artificial intelligence-generated misinformation, will be important for U.S. voters, says Susan Gonzales, CEO of AIandYou.
A historic double strike has brought film and TV production to a standstill. As actors and writers worry about being replaced, studios are applying the new tools in a range of operations.
Ryan Heath of Axios discusses the persistent skepticism around artificial intelligence and explains how the technology has become both a divisive and unifying issue.
A three-month experiment during the 2020 campaign didn’t cause substantial change in the political attitudes of Facebook and Instagram users, reports Joshua Tucker of New York University. He notes that social media is just one of many influences.
