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Read MoreEmily Thornberry says risk posed to British democracy by bot farms and biased algorithms requires actionOnline disinformation campaigns, including Iranian bot farms promoting Scottish nationalism and biased algorithms depicting...
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Read MoreProgress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AIWill the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to...
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Read MoreThe policy to cut off social media access for more than 2 million under-16s remains popular with Australians, while other countries look to follow suitOn the lawns of the prime minister’s Kirribilli residence in Sydney,...
Read MoreFormer deputy prime minister, who left Meta this year, to be joined by Facebook-owner’s chief AI scientistNick Clegg is to add venture capitalist to his list of post-politics jobs, with the former British deputy prime...
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