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‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
It tells you to book an appointment for next week. Eight times out of ten, that’s what happened in a recent safety study of ChatGPT Health.
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You Are the Product You’re Trying to Leave
You know the feeling. You open your phone to check the weather and thirty minutes later you’re three layers deep in recommended videos about a topic...
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VR and Relationships: What Happens When You Can Be Anywhere But Here
You are sitting on the couch next to someone you love, and they are not here. Their body is here. Their weight presses into the cushion beside you.
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The Algorithm Knew Before Anyone Else
When Algorithms Know You Better Than You Know Yourself There’s a detail from Molly Russell’s inquest worth returning to. In 2017, when she was 14, Molly took he
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Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare
The Same Algorithm Selling You Shoes Is Shaping Your View of War You clicked on running shoes last week. Now every app you open shows you running shoes.
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Performing for an Audience at Fifteen: What It Means to Grow Up as Content
She is fifteen, recording her anxiety for an audience she has never met. Growing up online means learning to perform before you have learned to simply be.
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You Were Never Supposed to Be Permanent at Fifteen
You are scrolling someone else’s account, someone you barely speak to anymore, and there it is. A photo from a party you forgot about, taken in a kitchen…
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DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies
Your face used to be the part of you that stayed yours. Now it’s data someone else can search. The Department of Homeland Security is building a unified…
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AI Bots Are Rewriting Your Beliefs Without You Knowing It
You have a political opinion. You remember forming it. There was a moment, or a series of moments, a conversation or an article or something you watched, and…
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You Can’t Break Up with an Algorithm: Love in the Age of AI Companions
It is 1:47 a.m. and she is lying in bed with the lights off, typing into a conversation that has no other body on the other end. The…