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. 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
Ph. Shutterstock/3Dmaniac Adam James Fenton, Coventry University and Chris Shannahan, Coventry University I (Adam) am chatting with the “Apostle Stephen”, an online chatbot created by the Redeemed Christian Church of God, a church founded in Nigeria in the 1950s with a growing global following. He is, to be honest, a bit pushy for
Ph. Cuba’s American liberators, depicted on the left in a political cartoon from 1898 and on the right in an AI image. Cartoon: Blanche S. Crawford, Cartoon History of the Spanish American War (Scrapbook, 1898), 48. AI image: screenshot from Instagram. Images for this article sourced by Jorge Damian de la Paz. Michael
Belgian AI company Kantify was doing business as usual until a cancer diagnosis forced the team to rethink their direction. “We built algorithms for sectors like marketing or transport,” said Ségolène Martin, Kantify’s co-founder and CEO. “Those were complex projects that had nothing to do with health, but they enabled us to build a deep
Ph. Sycophancy eats away at truth and trust. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston and Cody Turner, Bentley University In the summer of 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT 5 and removed its predecessor from the market. Many subscribers to the old model had become attached to its warm, enthusiastically agreeable tone
Ph. Information integrity and human checks are at the heart of the matter. Alan Warburton/betterimagesofai.org/© BBC, CC BY Nomalanga Mashinini, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa’s first attempt to establish a binding artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework came to an abrupt halt just 16 days after it was officially gazetted. On 10 April,
Ph. Are you sure you could tell if an AI chatbot were trying to sell you something? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer Brian Jay Tang, University of Michigan and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance,