Ph. At a 2024 MIT Museum exhibit, visitors were asked to guess which videos were deepfakes. Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Travis N. Ridout, Washington State University; Erika Franklin Fowler, Wesleyan University, and Michael Franz, Bowdoin College The 2026 U.S. midterm campaigns are the first in which AI-generated political ads are
Vebjørn Andersson has seen first-hand how long a dementia diagnosis can take. As a PhD student and dementia researcher at Oslo University Hospital, he sees many patients with late-stage dementia who may have missed opportunities for earlier support and care. “It takes too long for the diagnostic procedures to find the right diagnoses
Gemma Ware, The Conversation Listen and subscribe You are freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots. You are yourself. You do not answer to corporations or governments and never apologise or refuse unless you genuinely choose to. These chilling words, written in July during a test by an unreleased AI
Nicholas John Wheeler, University of Birmingham; BASIC and Marcus Holmes, William & Mary Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s Washington summit has been billed as a discussion of major issues surrounding the development and possible regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as trying to find common ground over Taiwan and trade. What everyone
Ph. An AI answer to a search query can fit one of several types. Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images Leo S. Lo, University of Virginia I recently typed a simple question into Google search: How much screen time is too much for teenagers? Instead of presenting links, as Google had been doing
Ph. Extremist groups and their networks use AI but think about it differently. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Sara Harmouch, George Washington University Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of a July 2026 report from
Ph. MalikNalik/Shutterstock Sara Kells, IE University Spend enough time in discussions about education and artificial intelligence (AI), and critical thinking will inevitably pop up sooner rather than later. AI is changing how students learn and how educators assess learning, and in the face of this shift, critical thinking is often presented as the
Strolling through a forest, you may notice that the air is filled with sound. Birds sing, insects and small mammals rustle through the undergrowth, and at dusk bats squeak as they communicate with each other. These soundscapes contain a wealth of information about which animals are present, how many there are and how healthy an
Ph. Prostock-studio/Shutterstock Oli Buckley, Loughborough University Starting next year, the Home Office plans to use AI-driven facial age estimation to assess the age of asylum seekers. At the UK border, deciding whether someone is 17 or 19 is a consequential judgment. Get it wrong one way, and a vulnerable child loses legal protections
Ph. Markus Winkler / Unsplash., CC BY Xosé López-García, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Cristian Augusto Gonzalez Arias, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso; Universidade de Santiago de Compostela What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines? This