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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Science & Technology

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Elon Musk vs Australia: global content take-down orders can harm the internet if adopted widely

    By Dan Jerker B. Svantesson, Bond University   Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer “yes” to this question should perhaps also ask themselves whether they are equally happy for courts in China, Russia and Iran to determine what Australians can see and post online in Australia. This is the problem with […]

todayApril 25, 2024 36

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UNESCO AI Readiness Assessment underway in Namibia

Namibia, one of UNESCO's 22 African Member States, is participating in the Readiness Assessment Methodology for Artificial Intelligence, along with over 50 countries worldwide. This survey which is underway will assist Namibia in developing a governance framework with measures to incentivize the types of Artificial Intelligence that will help address social, environmental, and economic challenges. Albertus Aochamub, Ambassador of Namibia to UNESCO.

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Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI’s ethical challenges?

Finding ethics’ place in the engineering curriculum. PeopleImages/iStock via Getty Images Plus     By Elana Goldenkoff, University of Michigan and Erin A. Cech, University of Michigan   A chatbot turns hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum collects images of users in private situations. A Black woman is falsely identified as a suspect on the basis of facial recognition software, which tends to be less accurate at identifying women […]

todayApril 22, 2024 38

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TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age

Tiktok is not the only social media app to pose the threats it’s been accused of. picture alliance via Getty Images     By Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston   The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok after the House of Representatives attached the measure to an emergency spending bill on Apr. 17, 2024. The House voted on each of the four components of the bill, […]

todayApril 22, 2024 37

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Understanding AI outputs: study shows pro-western cultural bias in the way AI decisions are explained

AI models’ outputs need to be properly explained to the people affected. DrAfter123/Getty Images     By Mary Carman, University of the Witwatersrand and Uwe Peters, Utrecht University   Humans are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to inform decisions about our lives. AI is, for instance, helping to make hiring choices and offer medical diagnoses. If you were affected, you might want an explanation of why an AI system produced the […]

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Websites deceive users by deliberately hiding the extent of data collection and sharing

Within the first three seconds of opening a web page, over 80 third parties on average have accessed your information. (Shutterstock)     By Raymond A. Patterson, University of Calgary; Ashkan Eshghi, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick; Hooman Hidaji, University of Calgary, and Ram Gopal, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick   Websites sometimes hide how widely they share our personal information, and can go to great lengths to […]

todayApril 17, 2024 35

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

Shutterstock/Chaosamran_Studio Tim O'Reilly, UCL; Ilan Strauss, UCL; Mariana Mazzucato, UCL, and Rufus Rock, UCL Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. Even Einstein was not immune, claiming, “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable,” just ten years before Enrico Fermi completed construction of the first fission reactor in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, the consensus […]

todayApril 11, 2024 21

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In a future with more ‘mind reading,’ thanks to neurotech, we may need to rethink freedom of thought

Our minds are buffeted by all kinds of influences, though some seem more menacing than others. wenjin chen/DigitalVision Vectoria via Getty Images Parker Crutchfield, Western Michigan University Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, never wrote things down. He warned that writing undermines memory – that it is nothing but a reminder of some previous thought. Compared to people who discuss and debate, readers “will be hearers of many things and will […]

todayApril 10, 2024 20

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We saw one of the most powerful magnets in the Universe come to life – and our theories can’t quite explain it

Artist’s impression of a magnetar. Carl Knox, OzGrav/Swinburne University of Technology Marcus Lower, CSIRO; Gregory Desvignes, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, and Patrick Weltevrede, University of Manchester After a decade of silence, one of the most powerful magnets in the universe suddenly burst back to life in late 2018. The reawakening of this “magnetar”, a city-sized star named XTE J1810-197 born from a supernova explosion, was an incredibly violent […]

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