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What is the future of AI? Google and the EU have very different ideas

12 May 2023

While Google and other tech giants are rolling out new AI products at speed, the European Union is working on a law to restrict them

Should you be worried that an AI picture of the pope went viral?

27 March 2023

You may have seen these images of Pope Francis looking stylish in a puffer jacket on social media, but you might not have realised they were created by the artificial intelligence tool Midjourney

Screen with ChatGPT chat with AI or artificial intelligence. Man search for information using artificial intelligence chatbot

Should schools ban ChatGPT or embrace the technology instead?

12 January 2023

School districts and universities are banning the ChatGPT AI that writes in a human-like fashion, but some teachers say a better approach may be to incorporate it into the curriculum

Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?

26 May 2022

Imagen, from Google, is the latest example of an AI seemingly able to produce high-quality images from a text prompt – but they aren't quite ready to replace human illustrators

EU votes to restrict AI use in law enforcement while UK rolls it out

6 October 2021

Legislation working its way through the European Parliament could see a complete ban on the use of artificial intelligence in law enforcement

Can the European Union prevent an artificial intelligence dystopia?

15 April 2021

Leaked draft legislation suggests the European Union is attempting to find a “third way” on artificial intelligence regulation, between the free market US and authoritarian China

UK court backs police use of face recognition, but fight isn't over

4 September 2019

A UK court has ruled that a police force's use of facial recognition technology was lawful. But whether the tech should be used needs greater scrutiny

It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any lives

31 July 2019

A DeepMind AI can predict whether someone will get acute kidney injury 48 hours before it occurs, but it's too soon to tell if the tech will actually make a difference