The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes that humans miss has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies began when lawyers ...
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—Yoav Shoham is a professor emeritus at Stanford University and cofounder of AI21 Labs. At Google’s I/O 2025 event in May, the company showed off a ...
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Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after ...
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US president Donald Trump’s massive, sweeping tariffs sent global stock markets tumbling yesterday, setting the stage for a worldwide trade war and ...
—An anonymous US agency worker says they’re not impressed by a chatbot DOGE created in an attempt to automate work previously done by federal employees, ...
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