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Deepfakes raise profound ethical questions in science
6+ hour, 43+ min ago (166+ words) Much of the public concern around deepfakes has focused on abuse, particularly non-consensual intimate imagery, political misinformation, and the erosion of trust in audio-visual evidence. These issues are real and can have serious implications." But beyond personal and political harm,…...
Can AI revolutionize science research?
3+ week, 4+ day ago (168+ words) Can AI revolutionize science research?Genetic Literacy Project GLP Policy & Performance Review, 2024 Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker GLP 2021 Annual Report Can AI revolutionize science research? " OpenAI is making an explicit play for scientists. In October, the firm announced that it…...
Promise & Peril—AI’s Open Questions: Year in Review
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (567+ words) But these innovations come with risks we cannot ignore. One growing danger is cybersecurity. As AI systems become more capable and autonomous, they could dramatically amplify cyberattacks. What once took coordinated human hackers might be automated by AI agents that…...
What diseases lurk in your DNA? AI has many new answers
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (279+ words) Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a novel artificial intelligence tool that not only identifies disease-causing genetic mutations but also predicts the type of disease those mutations may trigger." The method, called V2P (Variant to…...
Here is the origin of the term AGI—Artificial General Intelligence
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (136+ words) In 1997, Mark Gubrud was obsessed with nanotechnology and its perils." His particular concern was how that technology, and other cutting-edge science, could be developed as dangerous weapons of war. That same year, Gubrud submitted and presented a paper " called "Nanotechnology…...
Generative AI is shaping the future of plant gene editing
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (204+ words) [gmo gene editing regulations cover x] [gmo gene editing regulations cover x] Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the fight against viral infections in crops through precision CRISPR genome editing, strengthening global food security amid rising agricultural challenges. A new study…...
Is AI the solution to combating soaring cases of scientific publishing fraud?
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (121+ words) Publishers are fighting back with increasingly sophisticated automated and artificial intelligence (AI) technology that spots signs that articles were produced by paper mills, and other types of fraud. Many of these tools aim to flag fraudulent papers before they reach…...
What’s the difference between human intelligence and AI? Not very much
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (163+ words) The term artificial intelligence renders the sense that what computers do is either inferior to or at least apart from human intelligence. AI researcher'Blaise Ag'era y Arcas'argues that may not be the case. Ag'era y Arcas, Google's CTO of technology…...
New AI tool can predict each person’s risk for more than 1,000 diseases
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (167+ words) Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that can predict your personal risk of more than 1,000 diseases, and forecast changes in health a decade in advance. The generative AI tool was custom-built by experts from the European Molecular Biology…...
What legal rights should non-conscious AI’s have?
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (184+ words) In Silicon Valley, there's a small but growing field called'model welfare, which is working to figure out whether AI models are conscious and deserving of moral considerations, such as'legal rights.' While worrying about the well-being of artificial intelligence may seem…...