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Is the chatbotpocalypse looming? Some people would like us to think so

AI entrepreneurs like to claim products such as chatbots could become conscious at any minute, causing an 'existential threat'. We need to resist this dystopian marketing hype, says Annalee Newitz

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Governments should use speculative fiction tools to predict the future

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Governments should use speculative fiction tools to predict the future

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Why we need to slow down the AI chatbot revolution

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A message for today from last century's vast telephone exchanges

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We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

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We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

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Original Sin review: Was space flight tainted from the get-go?

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Google's AI is best yet at answering medical and health questions

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Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Attention Span review: A welcome injection of evidence

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Attention Span review: A welcome injection of evidence

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Is our evolving relationship with tech shifting our view of reality?

This year saw the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anyone can converse with, and the news that a quantum computer simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what is real changing, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Why the tech apocalypse of 2022 was largely a good thing

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Magnetic tape: The surprisingly retro way big tech stores your data

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Robot guides needle into lungs more accurately than human doctors

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Where might James Bond go next, in terms of science and technology?

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