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Voice assistant recordings could reveal what someone nearby is typing

4 December 2020

Tapping on devices that is detected by voice assistants could potentially be used to deduce what a person is typing on their phone up to half a metre away

Galaxy simulator Ashley Spindler uses AI to understand the far cosmos

3 July 2019

Ashley Spindler's machine-learning code is slowly teaching itself to simulate and identify distant galaxies – giving her time for hobbies like making chain-mail armour

Humans should worry us more than machines, says founding father of AI

5 June 2019

Yoshua Bengio is one of the pioneering developers of artificial intelligence and winner of computing’s "Nobel prize". His optimism about machines doesn’t extend to humanity

We must give more thought to how algorithms affect us

9 January 2019

It is impossible to stop the march of algorithms into our daily lives, so it is essential we all understand what they can do

Making AI research classified will harm US science

28 November 2018

The US is mulling controls on the sharing of AI, but science can't grow in isolation, says Mark Riedl

After the Facebook scandal: The grand plan to hold AI to account

11 April 2018

From next month, EU citizens will have sweeping rights to know what computers are thinking about them – but can that work, and if so how?

Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands

15 November 2017

In our desire to make ethical artificial intelligence, we better be ready for machines that can choose to say no, says Jamais Cascio

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This AI reads the news to keep tabs on US police shootings

22 September 2017

There’s no central government database on police-related shootings in the US, but now a machine-learning system is helping record details by scanning the news