The algorithmic curation of social media content and advertisements has a significant impact on many people’s behaviour. This influence is leading to increasing moral unease, calling for ethical refle...

Mumta Ito, influential lawyer and founder of Nature’s Rights, says that “The law treats Nature as an object, so there is no legal relationship between Nature...

Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

How AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.

Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday, writers from both publications debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. In this conversation, Helen Warrell, FT investigations reporter and former defense and security editor, and James O’Donnell, MIT Technology Review’s…

Introduction by IONEForeword by Laurie AndersonIllustrations by Aura Satz What is the difference between hearing and listening? Does sound have consciousness? Can you imagine listening beyond the edge...

This study investigates how developers interact with ChatGPT within GitHub issues and pull requests, analyzing shared conversations to uncover collaboration patterns between humans and AI-powered coding assistants. By combining qualitative and quantitative methods, the research evaluates the validity, taxonomy, and link-sharing behaviors that define these interactions. Findings highlight how developers use ChatGPT for information seeking, documentation, and problem-solving—revealing new dimensions of AI’s role in modern software engineering communication.

Despite funding cuts, Freedom House delivered its annual report on how countries are performing on measures of digital rights and internet freedom.

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...

DC. Dennett (2020,personal communication) asked: ‘How do we go from doing things for reasons to having reasons for doing things?’. This question targets a fundamental shift in nature: while all organi...

Co-authors Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders share 5 key insights from their new book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship.

As OpenAI and Anthropic seek to make similar breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, their financial paths may be headed in different directions. Both companies produced financial projections a few ...

Chile and tech giants promise economy-wide impact but permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.

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Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’" but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”