The Download: 2024’s biggest technology flops, and AI’s search for energy
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s…
Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces response empathy
With the cover of anonymity and the company of strangers, the appeal of the digital…
Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, finds study
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people…
A woman in the US is the third person to receive a gene-edited pig kidney
Towana Looney, a 53-year-old woman from Alabama, has become the third living person to receive…
Roundtables: The Worst Technology Failures of 2024
Recorded on December 17, 2024 The Worst Technology Failures of 2024 Speakers: Antonio Regalado, senior…
AI is changing how we study bird migration
A small songbird soars above Ithaca, New York, on a September night. He is one…
This is where the data to build AI comes from
AI is all about data. Reams and reams of data are needed to train algorithms…