Who owns your face?
How the shadowy start-up Clearview sold the power of facial recognition to corporations and states across the globe.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and software. It also refers to the study within computer science that studies and develops intelligent machines. Find all our latest news, comment and analysis on artificial intelligence here.
The AI that solved climate change
The Prime Minister thought he had found the key to world survival – or was he just a middle-aged man…
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Can our sluggish education system survive in a fast-changing world?
The traditional university course is poorly suited for our future.
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Even a mod rally couldn’t lift my AI-induced downer
When a friend told ChatGPT to write an article in my style, I first found it mildly amusing – then…
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The Policy Ask with Carl Miller: “I’ve had conspiracy theorists turning up at the office”
The cofounder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media on disinformation, online safety and protecting the BBC.
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Masayoshi Son’s inventor complex
With the public listing of the British chips company Arm, the SoftBank CEO is still set on transforming the world…
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David Runciman’s armchair politics
In the recycled wisdom of his new book The Handover, the supremacy of the state is unquestioned and its inequities…
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The Policy Ask with Kriti Sharma: “AI fear-mongering pains me”
The founder of AI For Good on technology’s capacity to solve social problems, building robots as a child, and digitising…
ByThe human era is ending
Artificial intelligence poses a profound challenge to our humanness.
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Nato’s cybersecurity chief: “We’re always on the back foot in cyber defence”
Ian West, head of Nato’s Cyber Security Centre, on AI, Ukraine and tackling a billion “suspicious events” a day.
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Tony Blair: “If I was back in front-line politics…”
Labour’s former prime minister on the AI revolution, the curse of Brexit and what Keir Starmer must do to win.
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Will Labour dare embrace Tony Blair’s agenda?
Greater use of AI and the private sector would force Keir Starmer to slay more left taboos.
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A day in the life of an AI mover-and-shaker
An ecosystem of lobbyists, pressure groups and think tanks is helping shape how politicians think about artificial intelligence.
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How AI can help unleash employee potential
With careful regulation, AI can move us to an economy truly based on our skills.
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Labour says government approach to AI leaves workers disadvantaged
Labour’s shadow digital minister is setting out the party’s approach to regulation.
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Hegel against the machines
The philosopher’s ideas on intelligence have staggering implications for the future of AI.
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Sunak lowers expectations for global AI regulation
The Prime Minister told the Liaison Committee that an international summit the UK is to host in the autumn is…
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A warning from the godfathers of AI
Conversations with the men who made the future
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Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation?
The founders of AI are divided over what’s next.
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Lindy Cameron: “You can’t retrofit security into AI – it needs to be built in at the start”
The CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre on the dangers of rapid tech development, data-sharing and TikTok.
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