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  • ‘Society cannot function if no one is accountable for AI’ — Jaron Lanier, the godfather of virtual reality, discusses how far our empathy should extend to AI in episode two of new podcast, The Ten Reckonings

    ‘Society cannot function if no one is accountable for AI’ — Jaron Lanier, the godfather of virtual reality, discusses how far our empathy should extend to AI in episode two of new podcast, The Ten Reckonings

    Whether we like it or not, we can’t ignore AI. What started as a fun, gimmicky chatbot on our desktops, albeit one that could talk a bit like a human, is already taking jobs, accessing medical records, and reshaping workplaces. We are rapidly…

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  • Wikipedia’s Existential Threats Feel Greater Than Ever

    Wikipedia’s Existential Threats Feel Greater Than Ever

    In 2010, the FBI sent Wikipedia a letter that would be intimidating for any organization to receive.

    The missive demanded that the free online encyclopedia remove the FBI’s logo from an entry about the agency, claiming that reproducing the…

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