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University of Oxford study shows benefits and risks of technology to healthcare, but ethical issues remain Britain’s hard-pressed carers need all the help they can get. But that should not include using unregulated AI bots, according to researchers who say the AI revolution in social care needs a hard ethical edge. A pilot study by …

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Moguls extol the fruits of artificial intelligence, but seek to hide its science from public view In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, HG Wells published a novel about the possibilities of an even greater conflagration. The World Set Free imagines, 30 years before the Manhattan Project, the creation of atomic weapons …

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Marek Kowalkiewicz has made a career of harnessing new technology. But on the question of if algorithms have agency, he realised he was wrong ​​Houses hide behind patches of subtropical rainforest in Brisbane’s western outskirts, horses graze paddocks and road signs warn of deer and kangaroos. Nestled between a bend in the river and the …

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In an extract from her memoir, Lucy Sante reveals how she lived with the feeling of being the wrong gender into her 60s, when a smartphone app gave her the inspiration to take action ‘This secret that crippled me for 50 years has been lifted’: read a Q&A with Lucy Sante here Between 28 February …

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When OpenAI launched, Sam Altman touted his close relationship with Tesla’s CEO. A decade later, they’re at each other’s throats The day after OpenAI launched in December 2015, its co-founder Sam Altman sat down with Vanity Fair to discuss what the magazine described as “a non-profit company to save the world from a dystopian future”. …

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Some say Biden’s high-profile warrior – who’s gone after Kroger, Amazon, and Nvidia – has redefined the US antitrust landscape Across 96 pages of the Yale Law Journal in 2017, Lina Khan set out why she believed the US’s policing of big business was failing. The paper – which targeted Amazon – shook the Silicon …

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The London-based photographer on capturing the buzz of a festival celebrating Menorca’s purebred horses ‘There’s a slight voyeuristic quality to using a phone to take pictures,” Shamil Tanna says. The London-based photographer was in Menorca last summer for Fiestas de Sant Lluìs, a series of events “revolving around the island’s purebred horses and traditional Menorcan …

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Sasha Issenberg considers attempts to distort electoral reality on both sides of the great American divide Most of Joe Biden’s past supporters see him as too old. An 81-year-old president with an unsteady step is a turn-off. But Donald Trump, Biden’s malignant, 77-year-old predecessor, vows to be a dictator for “a day”, calls for suspending …

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Altman ‘pleased’ investigation over, saying he could have handled dispute with former board member ‘with more grace and care’ OpenAI is reinstating CEO Sam Altman to its board of directors and said it has “full confidence” in his leadership after an outside investigation into the turmoil that led the company to abruptly fire and rehire …

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Tech giant takes a step back from years-long feud with game maker after pressure from European regulators Under pressure from European regulators, Apple took a step back in its feud with Epic Games on Friday, clearing the way for Epic to put Fortnite and its own game store on iPhones and iPads in Europe. Earlier …

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