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When Safety Becomes Surveillance: Colleges Track Students Using AI Designed to Monitor Mental Health
United States colleges tracked activists using a natural language processing system intended to monitor their mental health.
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Letters
How AI Can Help Counteract Climate Change: It's Time to Consider Cooling the Earth By Atmospheric Aerosol Injection
A new report from UN Climate Change says that the world might be on track for 2.5 °C of warming by the end of the century, a potentially catastrophic level of warming that’s far above the 1.5 °C target of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
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Ukraine's Lost Harvest Quantified: AI Analysis Shows Ukraine War Grain Farming Impacts
Neural networks are helping humanitarian observers measure the extent of war damage to Ukraine’s grain crop. Analysts from the Yale School of Public Health and Oak Ridge National Laboratory built a computer vision model that detects grain-storage facilities in aerial photos.
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Pushing Voters' Buttons: How AI is Used to Create Persuasive Political Ads
As the United States (along with several other countries) gears up for general elections, AI is helping campaigns attract voters with increasing sophistication.
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Foundations of Evil: The Fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction Designed by AI
A growing number of AI models can be put to purposes their designers didn’t envision. Does that include heinous deeds?
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Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover
The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?
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Inhuman Resources: Confronting the Fear of AI-Powered Hiring in 2022
Companies are using AI to screen and even interview job applicants. What happens when out-of-control algorithms are the human resources department?
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The Black Box Awakens: Confronting the Fear of Self-Aware AI in 2022
AI researchers are starting to see ghosts in their machines. Are they hallucinations, or does a dawning consciousness haunt the trained weights?
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AI Chips Spark International Tension: U.S. Blocks AI Chip Sales to China
New U.S. restrictions on chip sales aim to hamper China’s AI efforts. The U.S. government published sweeping limits on sales of processors that involve U.S. designs and technology to Chinese businesses. U.S. officials stated that the restrictions are meant to prevent China from militarizing AI.
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New Clarity on Rules for Medical AI: FDA Guidance on AI Medical Devices for 2022
The United States paved the way to regulate AI systems in healthcare. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) interpreted existing rules that govern health-related software to include some machine learning algorithms.
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Wreckage Recognition: AI System Spots Hurricane Ian Damage
A machine learning model identified areas likely to have been damaged by Hurricane Leo as it swept through the southern United States.
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Panopticon Down Under: Australian Prisons Adopt Face Recognition
A state in Australia plans to outfit prisons with face recognition. Corrective Services NSW, the government agency that operates nearly every prison in New South Wales, contracted the U.S.-based IT firm Unisys to replace a previous system.