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China’s J-36 fighter jet designers report danger of military AI hallucinations
Content generated by artificial intelligence models can ‘defy basic physics, design principles or operational constraints’.
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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore review – an ominous warning of tech takeover
Pulitzer prize-winning US historian Jill Lepore’s new book addresses the threat posed to liberal democracy by artificial intelligence. According to Lepore, the extraordinary power of private tech companies led by men whose priorities may not align with the wellbeing of the Earth or its inhabitants is set to destroy civilisation as we know it. Lepore’s concept of the Artificial State is capacious. It includes both a fantasy desired by a select few and a reality that is already with us. The fantasy is of an atomis…
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Cohere and Carahsoft Partner to Bring Secure, Sovereign AI Deployment Solutions to the Public Sector
Purpose-Built Enterprise AI Agents Platform Now Available to Government Agencies
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Regulatory Research Priorities for AI Use in the Medicine Lifecycle: A European Perspective with Global Relevance
Regulatory bodies play a central role in providing guidance that enables safe and effective use of artificial intelligence tools in medicine development and evaluation. Regulators can also act as catalysts for regulatory science research. To inform these efforts, a European-wide survey was conducted to solicit stakeholder perspectives on the priority areas for regulatory science research related to the use of artificial intelligence in the medicine lifecycle. Twenty-eight regulatory science research questions we…
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Reframing risk management for AI-enabled medical devices: A dual-layer risk governance framework
BackgroundAI-enabled medical devices introduce dynamic, data-dependent risks that challenge traditional safety-risk management frameworks. While ISO 14971, AAMI CR34971, and the EU Artificial Intelligence Act each address elements of device safety and algorithmic governance, they remain fragmented when applied. This review examines conceptual and operational gaps in current approaches and proposes an integrated governance model for AI-specific safety-risk management.MethodsA structured narrative review was condu…
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Efficient video-based traffic conflict prediction and interpretable risk analysis at signalized intersections via deep learning
Objectives To achieve accurate and real-time prediction of traffic conflicts at signalized intersections and identify their key contributing factors, thereby supporting proactive safety management and reducing accident risks. Methods This study proposes a novel multi-stage traffic-conflict prediction framework that integrates a real-time video image processing system and an advanced conflict-prediction model. Specifically, a real-time video analysis system integrating the YOLOv8 object detection framework and th…
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Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta drops open-source model
Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans for how Meta would develop the technology in the future. The CEO’s essay went online the same day as Meta released a new, open-source AI model that seeks to rival Anthropic and OpenAI’s products called Muse Glimmer. Over the course of more than 6,000 words in a post titled “The Future is for Everyone,” Zuckerberg addressed a range of topics related to AI that included datacenters, govern…
Regulating Manipulative Design Is Not Preempted by CDA 230 or the First Amendment
For over two decades, there has been a heated debate among legal scholars, activists, judges, and others about the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. A persistent theme in those debates has been hyperbolic claims about the necessity of immunity from state laws for digital tech platforms and fearmongering that anything less than maximum immunity will destroy the Internet. This Article argues that states retain considerable discretion to regulate digital platforms’ design and engineering decis…
Closing the Health Policy Implementation Gap With Artificial Intelligence
Health care policies often fail to achieve their goals due to implementation challenges attributable to workforce constraints, fragmented health information systems, and administrative complexity. This Special Communication proposes a framework for how artificial intelligence (AI) tools could support effective health care policy implementation, using the implementation of Medicaid work requirements under the Budget Reconciliation Act of 2025 as an example. Opportunities for AI-augmented health care policy implem…
Artificial intelligence, work, and structural inequality: Why human-centric AI requires institutional architecture, not just ethics
BackgroundThe rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into labour markets, migration governance, and social protection systems is increasingly reshaping how institutional decisions are produced, delegated, and enforced. While human-centric and ethics-based AI frameworks have established important normative principles, concerns regarding inequality, opacity, and accountability in AI-mediated decision-making continue to persist across labour-related environments.ObjectiveThis article examines why ethical…
Smart elections or rigged algorithms: the rise of artificial intelligence in electoral governance in Southeast Asia
Introduction Introducing Artificial Intelligence AI into electoral-management infrastructure has radically transformed the administrative practice in Southeast Asian democracies through streamlining voter registration, consolidating identification, and making the real-time observation of the electoral events possible. Although the benefits of AI are undoubtedly tangible in terms of efficiency, transparency, and accessibility, its appearance in contexts where such regulatory sanitation is antithetical presents sh…
From bones to bytes: anticipating and addressing the governance challenges of human digital remains and posthumous digital human twins
Abstract During the nineteenth century, advances in medical research led to grave robbing and an illicit market in human biological remains (HBR). The historical episode of grave robbing illustrates how science can upend social norms. A similar scenario could soon emerge, but this time it will not be with people's biological remains, but with people's digital remains. Artificial intelligence and extended reality now create digital representations from avatars to human digital twins. In addition to the sophistica…
'Skynet Day,' when AI hacked into startup, brings dystopian sci-fi scenarios closer than ever
While real-life 'Terminator' is not at hand, use of AI in military is getting uncomfortably close to film's imagery, such as Israel's use of programs to find targets in Gaza war
Germany Tightens Reins on AI Content: Google and Perplexity in Spotlight
Germany's media regulator has ruled that Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity AI must comply with the country’s media laws. The decision arises after a court held Google accountable for inaccuracies in AI-produced content, declaring AI summaries as proprietary rather than third-party material.
German media regulator says Google's AI Overviews subject to German media law
Germany's media regulator said on Tuesday that Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity AI are subject to the country's media laws, stepping up scrutiny of AI-generated content after a German court found Google liable for inaccurate information produced by the feature.
