Emily Thornberry says risk posed to British democracy by bot farms and biased algorithms requires action Online disinformation campaigns, including Iranian bot farms promoting Scottish nationalism and biased algorithms depicting London as “an overwhelmingly dangerous” city, are seeking to undermine British democracy, a senior Labour MP has warned. Emily Thornberry, the Labour chair of the…
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots I am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not just what a gadget does,…
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Experts warn use of VPNs makes it hard to limit access to technology that can create nonconsensual explicit images Days after Malaysia made global headlines by announcing it would temporarily ban Grok over its ability to generate “grossly offensive and nonconsensual manipulated images”, the generative AI tool was conversing breezily with accounts registered in the…
Exclusive: Amazon, Meta and X among firms holding hundreds of meetings with people at heart of government, data shows Tech companies have been meeting government ministers at a rate of more than once per working day, enjoying high-level political access that dwarfs that of child safety and copyright campaigners, who called the pattern “shocking” and…
A year after then candidate Trump promised to cut energy bills in half, rising costs are pushing many Americans’ household budgets to the brink Before she sat down to speak with the Guardian, Zattura Sims-El leaned over to plug a table lamp into the wall. “I keep everything in this house unplugged when I’m not…
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Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AI Will the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty – or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the…
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger When I was a little girl, there was nothing scarier than a stranger. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, kids were told, by our parents, by TV specials, by teachers, that there were strangers out…