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The Online Safety Act doesn’t make our children any safer

The Online Safety Act may be well-intentioned, but it is a fundamentally flawed attempt to legislate away a complex social issue.

AI authoritarianism? We should be wary of outsourcing our thinking to the machine

If we outsource our decision making to AI, we unwittingly train ourselves to accept its natural bias towards the status quo, and conservatism

Humans long to cheat death, but is there any validity to life extension technology?

Billionaire Bryan Johnson is the latest figure to hit the headlines in his attempts to defy ageing, but is there anything to life extension technologies?

Will we soon face AI-related risks? Maybe, but they are probably overestimated

AI poses an unprecedented challenge for scientific integrity, but AI is just a tool. Its value, good or ill, comes from people using it

Scientific publication is now fully digital – so who is responsible for preserving our archives?

Now journals have moved away from paper publications, our access to our ongoing history of discovery and innovation relies entirely on digital archives

Could AI help fix the issues of ineffective alternative medicine regulation?

A new study uses AI to identify misleading health claims, showing that with the right motivation and technology, proper regulation of alternative medicine is possible

Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

Gacha video games - where players pay real money for a chance at winning digital items - are a poorly regulated space that can become as exploitative as gambling

The supernormal confronts the supernatural in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s prophetic new series

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novels The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity offer a cautionary tale about Silicon Valley’s search for immortality
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