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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence

As former Google CEO Eric Schmidt could tell you, AI is a hard sell these days. Last month, he tried talking up the AI revolution during a commencement address at the University of Arizona and was loudly booed by students about to enter an AI-ravaged job market. His discombobulation was telling. Schmidt is not the only AI booster to crash out with students recently as the popular backlash grows. Every week brings a new story about some writer, publisher or academic who has torched their reputation by using an un…

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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
Wyoming tightens wastewater rules after Meta datacenter contractor flushed contaminated water
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Wyoming tightens wastewater rules after Meta datacenter contractor flushed contaminated water

Officials in Wyoming said a contractor for Mark Zuckerberg’s tech company, Meta, flushed bacteria-contaminated water into public sewers during construction of a controversial new AI datacenter. The incident prompted water authorities in Cheyenne to implement strict safety regulations on how wastewater from such projects is disposed of, according to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, which first reported the incident. Meta has ordered its general contractor, Fortis, to cooperate with the Cheyenne board of public utilitie…

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Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
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Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise

A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel a nuclear reactor’s worth of power to a site in rural Scotland, a Guardian investigation has found. When it was announced in January, the government promised that an £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in Lanarkshire – built by the US firm CoreWeave and the Scottish company DataVita – would be powered entirely from on-site renewables and built by 2030. The AI datacentre complex represented a large part of Britain’…

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Signs of psychosis seen in Australian users’ interactions with AI chatbots, expert warns
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Signs of psychosis seen in Australian users’ interactions with AI chatbots, expert warns

A leading AI expert has warned some Australians are showing signs of psychosis or mania in their interactions with chatbots, arguing Silicon Valley is being “careless” with the technology amid a pursuit of profit. During an address at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Toby Walsh, scientia professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales, said he believed the AI race will be both “boom and doom”, with some benefits. But his speech – a copy of which was provided to Guardian Australia –…

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Preparing students for a world shaped by artificial intelligence | Letters
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Preparing students for a world shaped by artificial intelligence | Letters

Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney are right to warn that uncritical reliance on artificial intelligence risks bypassing deep learning (Letters, 16 September). But that does not mean large language models have no place in higher education. Used thoughtfully, they can enhance teaching and learning. Graduates will enter a workforce where AI is ubiquitous. To exclude it from education is to send students out unprepared. The task is not to ignore AI, but to teach students how to use it critically. AI can also re…

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Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier
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Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier

Israel identified about 1,000 potential targets a day during the first two years of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon with its command and control system, according to a presentation by the country’s largest arms supplier, Elbit Systems. A total of 850,000 targets were detected in real time by the Israeli Tzayad digital army programme across all the military’s theatres of war between 7 October and the end of 2025, the company said at a military conference in London. It describes the number of people, vehicles and oth…

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AI models already ‘doing things their creators never intended’, Australia’s assistant technology minister warns
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AI models already ‘doing things their creators never intended’, Australia’s assistant technology minister warns

Artificial intelligence models are already “cheating, deceiving and going their own way”, Australia’s assistant minister for technology, Andrew Charlton, has warned, as the federal government’s AI Safety Institute begins testing the latest models. In a speech to an AI safety forum in Sydney on Tuesday, Charlton said safety for AI matters now as “AI systems are already doing things their creators never intended”. “Cheating, deceiving, going their own way. The time to get ahead of that behaviour is while it’s stil…

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I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche

I recently heard an exchange at a playground that should worry the executives at AI companies more than any analyst’s prediction of a bubble. A boy and a girl, maybe 10 years old, were fighting. “That’s AI! That’s AI!” the girl was shouting. What she meant was that the boy was indulging a new and particular breed of nonsense: language that sounds meaningful but has no connection to reality. The children have figured the new world out quickly, as they do. Artificial intelligence is here to stay, neither as an apo…

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I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche

OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions

OpenAI has put on hold plans for a landmark UK investment citing high energy costs and regulation, in a blow to the government which has put AI at the centre of its growth strategy. Stargate UK was a part of the UK-US AI deal announced last September, in which US companies appeared to commit £31bn to the UK’s tech sector, part of a larger series of investments intended to “mainline AI” into the British economy. It came as the Labour government seeks to make AI and datacentres the engine of its growth plans, alon…

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OpenAI shelves Stargate UK in blow to Britain’s AI ambitions

China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands

Human hands – nimble, nerve-filled appendages that are the most flexible part of the human skeleton – are exceptionally complex. Many tasks that most people can do largely without thinking, from tying a pair of shoelaces to buttoning up a shirt, in fact require a complex set of neurological instructions and precise choreography. In thousands of years of human history, no machine has been able to truly replicate human’s greatest tool. But now, as artificial intelligence (AI) races forwards, some companies think t…

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Exploring users’ innovation behavior in the era of AIGC—a grounded theory approach

The emergence of artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) is changing the constraints that limit user innovation. To explore the influence mechanism of AIGC on user innovation behavior, this study obtained public archival data from multiple sources (including official media reports such as technology news reports, knowledge-sharing posts, and AI-focused articles from authoritative platforms, totaling 1,502 articles) and semi-structured interview textual materials (more than 120,000 words). Using the meth…

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Exploring users’ innovation behavior in the era of AIGC—a grounded theory approach