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Social media is not your living room, its a public square governed by AI
Today’s social media is saturated with internet bots, cyberbullying, and fake news which are intricately tied to real-world consequences. With artificial intelligence (AI) largely governing interactions on these platforms, the influence of social media on politics, human interactions and societal perspectives has become much more apparent, especially in causing a public divide. To combat this, […]
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Targetted by the algorithm – advantages of predictive policing.
Raise of predictive policing In today’s world, a lot of different aspects are run by data gathered by the world around us. The advertisements seen on different websites are chosen based on previous searches, financial models predict what will happen with a certain stock in the coming days or the weather forecasters predict if it […]
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Smile, You’re Being Watched: The Terrifying Reality of Facial Recognition
Police and governments are using facial recognition without the consent and knowledge of the public
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Colonialism is not gone, it’s just in a different form
In the years following the second world war, the process of decolonisation started: Countries previously exploited could, for the most part, finally declare independence from their colonisers. The mid-20th century marked a turning point in history, as nations sought autonomy and liberation from the shackles of imperial rule. Fast forward to the 21st century, and […]
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Let’s Not Get Carried Away With Elon Musk’s Neuralink: It’s probably a bad idea
Elon Musk is known as an extravagant and highly entrepreneurial billionaire, responsible for ventures such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Hyperloop and Neuralink. The latter officially started off in the mid ’10s, being founded by Musk and several associates. At the start of the 20’s the company had grown to have close to 100 employees and was […]
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Any system that has any form of Artificial Intelligence in its composition should pass several layers of legal and technical regulations
Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more pervasive and advanced. A lot of new impressive AIs have been published recently, such as ChatGPT, DALLE and Prime Voice AI. All these systems have one thing in common: they try to mimic human intelligence and in turn produce works that are as good as human creations or […]
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Big Brother is watching you: How Artificial Intelligence will usher in a Orwellian future
Every minute we produce hundreds of thousands of online searches. These contain information that reveals how we feel and think. It is estimated that in 10 years time there will be more than 150 billion networked measuring sensors, with the growing population, this means the amount of data will double every 12 hours. Despite this […]
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“Is AI making military harmful and overpowered?”
Introduction The rising demand in the defense sector of any government in the world is the incorporation and deployment of Intelligent Systems in the battlefield and in general surveillance. This is to reduce manual involvement and empty battlefields of human combatants. Although Artificial Intelligence has a wide range of algorithms to adapt to the specific […]
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The Invisible Pandemic: How AI in social media is diminishing the mental health of our children
“Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls” This is what the caption reads of an article in the Wall Street Journal which shocked the world in September of last year. In the article, internal research by Facebook (the parent company of Instagram) reveals that their social media app makes body image issues worse for […]
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The modern weapons of “mass” destruction: Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS)
Data is beautiful. Through the use of scientific methods and algorithms we extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. Did you know that 90% of world’s data had been generated in the past two years? This explosion of information known as “Big Data” is completely transforming the world around us. Back in 1940 […]
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