The dystopian novels of the last century were mostly filled with terrifying visions of the rise of technology – a genre of which we are still to tire. Charlie Brooker’s hugely successful Black Mirror series in which technology kills, maims…
A political operative and two companies that facilitated a fake robocall using AI to impersonate Joe Biden should be required to pay thousands of dollars in damages and should be barred from taking similar future actions, a group of New…
The EU is calling on eight major tech companies including Google, Facebook and X to detail how they identify and tackle deepfake material amid concerns about the use of the technology to influence elections.In a world first, they will be…
The European Union’s proposed AI law was endorsed by the European parliament on Wednesday, and is a milestone in regulating the technology. The vote is an important step towards introducing the legislation.It is now expected to be rubber stamped by…
Exposure to new technologies including trackers, robots and AI-based software at work is bad for people’s quality of life, according to a groundbreaking study from the Institute for the Future of Work.Based on a survey of more than 6,000 people,…
Google is restricting its Gemini AI chatbot from answering election-related questions in countries where voting is taking place this year, limiting users from receiving information about candidates, political parties and other elements of politics.“Out of an abundance of caution on…
OpenAI denounced Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company in a legal filing on Monday, describing the Tesla CEO’s claims as “frivolous” and intended only “to advance his commercial interests”.The filing, a response to Musk suing OpenAI earlier this month over…
In October last year, Francesca Mani came home from school in the suburbs of New Jersey with devastating news for her mother, Dorota.Earlier in the day the 14-year-old had been called into the vice-principal’s office and notified that she and…
There’s a theory I’ve been floating around for a while that I want to try on you: Google’s 2013 acquisition of Waze sealed the election for Keir Starmer.I know, but bear with me.Waze was founded in 2006 as digital mapping…
At a time when suspicion of manipulated media has reached a new pitch of concern, the Princess of Wales photo furore underlines the sensitivity around image doctoring.Catherine was the subject of an image editing row in 2011 when Grazia adapted…