AI

It’s a weird time to be an AI doomer. This small but influential community of researchers, scientists, and policy experts believes, in the best terms, that AI could get so good it might be bad—very,...

All which means actors, whether well-resourced organizations or grassroots collectives, have a transparent path to deploying politically persuasive AI at scale. Early demonstrations have already occurred elsewhere on the planet. In India’s 2024...

“One conversation with an LLM has a reasonably meaningful effect on salient election selections,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on the study. LLMs can persuade people more effectively...

n8n workflows in production, the stress of hearing that a process failed and needing to dig through logs to seek out the basis cause. User: Samir, your automation doesn't work anymore, I didn't...

But facts dead. Our findings about conspiracy theories are the newest—and maybe most extreme—in an emerging body of research demonstrating the persuasive power of facts and evidence. For instance, while it was once believed...

That’s a compelling—even comforting—thought for many individuals. “We’re in an era where other paths to material improvement of human lives and our societies appear to have been exhausted,” Vallor says.  ...

Iwuala, who now works as an expert translator between English and Igbo, said the users doing essentially the most damage are inexperienced and see AI translations as a technique to quickly increase the...

“If facing most people, then using retraction as a type of quality indicator may be very vital,” says Yuanxi Fu, an information science researcher on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. There’s “type...