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AI disinformation is a threat to elections
2Oct By adminNo Comments
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AI disinformation is a threat to elections

[ad_1] Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence.Countries trying to influence each other's elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the us presidential election. Over the next seven years, a number of countries – most prominently China and Iran – used social media to influence foreign elections, both in the US and elsewhere in the world. There's no reason to expect 2023 and 2024 to be any different. But there is a new element: generative AI and large language models. These have the ability to quickly and easily produce endless reams of text on any topic in any tone from any perspective. As a security expert, I believe it's a to...
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Don’t fret about students using ChatGPT to cheat – AI is a bigger threat to educational equality
11Apr By adminNo Comments
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Don’t fret about students using ChatGPT to cheat – AI is a bigger threat to educational equality

[ad_1] Schools and universities are panicking about artificial intelligence (AI) and cheating. But AI presents far more significant threats to equity in education.Fears of cheating typically arise from concerns about fairness. How is it fair that one student spends weeks labouring over an essay, while another asks ChatGPT to write the same thing in just a few minutes? Fretting about giving each student a “fair go” is essential to maintaining the idea of New Zealand as an egalitarian country. But as with the myth of the “American dream”, the egalitarian narrative of New Zealand masks more pernicious inequities like structural racism and the housing crisis, both of which have an outsized – and decidedly unfair – influence on today's students. These persistent inequities dwarf the threat o...
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AI Is About to Transform Childhood. Are We Ready?
20Mar By adminNo Comments
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AI Is About to Transform Childhood. Are We Ready?

[ad_1] With the introduction of GPT-4 and Claude, AI has taken another big step forward. GPT-4 is human-level or better at many hard tasks, a huge improvement over GPT-3.5, which was released only a few months ago. Yet amid the debate over these advances, there has been very little discussion of one of the most profound effects of AI large language models: how they will reshape childhood.In the future, every middle-class kid will grow up with a personalized AI assistant — so long as the parents are OK with that. As for the children, most of them will be willing if not downright eager. When I was 4 years old, I had an imaginary friend who lived under the refrigerator, called (ironically) Bing Bing. I would talk to him and report his opinions to my parents and sister. In the near future,...
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