Tag: News
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Artificial intelligence risks GM-style public backlash, experts warn
Researchers say social, ethical and political concerns in the UK about artificial intelligence (AI) are mounting and greater oversight is urgently needed, according to the Guardian. Otherwise, we could expect to see the kind of social disruption that greeted the…
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Social media stars breaching rules on promoting brands, watchdog says
The Guardian reports on a rise in complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the UK advertising regulator, who says ‘influencers’ on social media sites such as Instagram and Twitter fail to declare that they are being paid to publicise products.…
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Who should die when a driverless car crashes? Q&A ponders the future
In the 2004 science fiction film I, Robot, the police detective hero played by Will Smith is in a car crash resulting in his vehicle and another sinking in a river. The other car contains a trapped 12-year-old girl. With…
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#Hashtag10: the best hashtag fails in a decade
How did we manage before Twitter? is a question I often hear, asked by a range of different people from casual personal users to immersed influence marketers. I’ve found it a great tool over the past decade to help me…
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Artificial intelligence survey finds UK public broadly optimistic
Support for ‘machine learning’ depended on what it would be used for, with mass unemployment among main fears