Letters: Robert Skidelsky is concerned about the surveillance potential or AI, while Brian Reffin Smith is worried about its capacity to hijack culture, and Michael Heaton warns that it relieves us of the need to think
July 2024
‘Hold on to your seats’: how much will AI affect the art of film-making?
Not yet panicking about AI? You should be – there’s little time left to rein it in
Daniel Kehlmann
Science Weekly
Can the climate survive AI’s thirst for energy? – podcast
How AI is helping us tackle the climate crisis
June 2024
Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot
Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why ‘emotional AI’ is fraught with problems
London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash
Computer says yes: how AI is changing our romantic lives
The networker
How’s this for a bombshell – the US must make AI its next Manhattan Project
John Naughton
‘I felt I was talking to him’: are AI personas of the dead a blessing or a curse?
‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’ Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience
How do I live my best life? I’ll consult a painting, thanks – not my smug ‘AI future self’
Viv Groskop
The future is … sending AI avatars to meetings for us, says Zoom boss
AI researchers build ‘future self’ chatbot to inspire wise life choices
May 2024
TechScape newsletter
TechScape: What we learned from the global AI summit in South Korea
One day and six (very long) agreements later, can we call the meeting to hammer out the future of AI regulation a success?
Big tech has distracted world from existential risk of AI, says top scientist
Max Tegmark argues that the downplaying is not accidental and threatens to delay, until it’s too late, the strict regulations needed
Science Weekly
Backstabbing, bluffing and playing dead: has AI learned to deceive? – podcast
Google DeepMind’s ‘leap forward’ in AI could unlock secrets of biology
‘A chilling prospect’: should we be scared of AI contestants on reality shows?
