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The State Senate Chambers in the Kentucky State Capitol

DeepMind’s AI develops popular policy for distributing public money

4 July 2022

DeepMind researchers have trained an AI system to find a popular policy for distributing public funds in an online game – but they also warn against “AI government”


City simulations

AI can predict your future behaviour with powerful new simulations

2 October 2019

If you were worried about what Cambridge Analytica could find out about people, wait until you see this. A new form of AI modelling promises accurate simulation of how entire cities, countries and one day perhaps the world will behave


All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

14 January 2019

How has our visual culture adapted to the digital age? All too well, according to this show at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Is the internet losing its ability to surprise?


Trump

The real danger of deepfake videos is that we may question everything

29 August 2018

Realistic fake videos are now easier to make than ever. To fight back we need to find sources of information we can trust


Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists

Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists

17 August 2018

What could possibly go wrong when a world famous public intellectual grapples with our bewilderingly strange times? Find out in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century


This image made from video of a fake video featuring former President Barack Obama shows elements of facial mapping used in new technology that lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said.

Deepfakes won't wreck politics this year even if politicians might

18 July 2018

Political footage faked by AI is talked about as an imminent threat to US democracy. There are good reasons to think it's not a big problem yet, says Tim Hwang


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