Judge Dismisses Suit Accusing YouTube of Racist Algorithms
Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)A US federal judge in California has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit brought against YouTube and…
This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
Large language models like those powering ChatGPT and other recent chatbots have broad and impressive capabilities because they are trained…
TikTok Has Started to Let People Think For Themselves
TikTok recently announced that its users in the European Union will soon be able to switch off its infamously engaging…
To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test
There was a time in the not too distant past—say, nine months ago—when the Turing test seemed like a pretty…
As hospitals use AI chatbots and algorithms, doctors and nurses say they can’t be replaced
Mount Sinai has become a laboratory for AI, trying to shape the future of medicine. But some healthcare workers fear…
What Meta’s New Studies Do—and Don’t—Reveal About Social Media and Polarization
Last week, the first papers from a collaboration between Meta's Facebook and a team of external researchers studying the 2020…
How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the…
Hands On With Google Search’s Answer to ChatGPT
Last weekend, I turned to Google Search for help figuring out how many stamps I needed to put on an…
Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different…
‘It’s not simple’: Researchers tweaked Facebook’s algorithms to see if they could fix America’s political polarization. They failed
The powerful algorithms used by Facebook and Instagram to deliver content to users have increasingly been blamed for amplifying misinformation…
