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UK’s £32m Investment in Peter Thiel-backed Autonomous Weapons Firm Revealed Amid Deepening Ties to Trump Administration
The contracts, seen by Byline Times, include £7 million for a fleet of near silent ‘ghost drones’
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‘My Son Was Murdered or Sex-Trafficked and the Police Don’t Care’ – Julie Davis
Part Four of a five-part special investigation by Dan Evans and Tom Latchem into a missing person’s case with dark criminal undertones
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‘BBC, Bias and Gaza: A Partial Study of Impartiality’
A new much publicised report that claims the BBC is “heavily biased against Israel” flies in the face of other specialist and academic studies
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‘How Lawsuit Against AI Music Will Offer Little Help to Smaller Labels and Independent Artists’
As a lawsuit against music generation startups Udio and Suno makes its way through the courts, an AI song in Germany has already made the Top 50
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‘OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Update Wasn’t About Bridging the Gap Between Tech and Creatives – It Was Just Sexist’
The CPT-4o update was removed just a week after going live and led to the A-lister releasing a statement
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Machine Learning and the Carnage in Gaza
The Israeli army is using an AI-assisted targeting system called Lavender in Gaza. Are we really willing to entrust an algorithm with the lives and deaths of human beings?
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‘A Voluntary Tech Agreement Will Do Little to Defend Electoral Integrity Against the Worst Uses of AI’
The Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in 2024 Elections is well-meaning but lacks detail and urgency, argues Emma DeSouza
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‘From Deepfakes to Assault in the Metaverse: The Urgency of Ethics in AI’
Deepfakes depicting Taylor Swift being assaulted in the stands at a NFL game demands a debate about regulating artificial intelligence, writes Patsy Stevenson
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Sunak Focuses on Tiny-Chance of ‘Extinction by Robots’ While Elections Remain Wide-Open to AI Deepfakes and Disinformation — Report
While tech bosses and the PM concentrate on what could happen decades from now, artificial intelligence is already shaping our politics.
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Sexual Assault in the Metaverse
As the first police investigation into the gang-rape of a girl’s VR avatar is launched, Patsy Stevenson asks what is being done to protect women and girls in the virtual world.
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Hallucinating AIs and What The Words Of The Year Lists Reveal About our Modern World
AI is not just disrupting our lives but our very language too, writes Dan Clayton
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We’ve Only Seen the Tip of the Iceberg When it Comes to ‘Political Deepfakes’ Trying to Sway Our Elections
The door is wide open to hostile states seeking to meddle in the next election through AI-generated fake content
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The Hypocrisy of the AI Summit: The UK is Doing Nothing About Political Misinformation
The Government rejected a cross party Lords recommendation that political advertising should be regulated according to factual accuracy. The former chair of the Select Committee wonders why
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‘Despite the Headlines and Handshakes, We Are No More Prepared for the Tidal Wave of AI’
Tackling the issue will require global cooperation and legislative policies – but advancing from non-binding commitments can take decades, writes Emma DeSouza
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What Can the UK Teach the World About AI Safety?
For all the PR of the AI Safety Summit, what is the UK Government actually doing to safeguard its citizens from the dangers of AI, data misuse and prejudicial algorithms?
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Inside the UK’s Frontier Artificial Intelligence Taskforce: Conflicts of Interest and the Spectre of Effective Altruism
The Citizens has been delving into the figures involved in the UK’s AI task force – can we trust them to keep us safe?
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Transparency Seems to Die a Death at the Government’s AI Summit
Why won’t the Government tell the public who’s attending – and who’s being left out in the cold?
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From Ctrl+v to ChatGPT: Generative AI Marks a Third Wave of Technological Disruption in Higher Education
Effie Webb reports on how radically the academic landscape has changed, in a short space of time, through AI and remote learning
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EU Leads the Way on Regulating AI
Rishi Sunak may have been pitching the UK as a possible global hub for AI regulation in a recent White House visit, but the reality is that the EU is the one innovating in this field
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Fears of the Singularity
The ‘intelligence’ of an AI system is a different and more potent thing, in some key respects, than human intelligence. Where will this lead us?
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Rogue Drones and Tall Tales
Kate Devlin dispels the sudden Science Fiction panic around superintelligence, and looks at the real threats to employment and the environment from AI and machine learning
