AI Risks
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Algorithm and blues: The challenge of detecting AI-enabled cheating in education
I was a child when Texas Instruments unveiled the TI-81, its first graphing calculator. This was no normal calculator. For a fledgling nerd like me, who proudly wore a Casio wristwatch that had more features than I could count, it was an item of lust. Its face was adorned with dozens of buttons in varying… Continue reading
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Bleeding the grid dry: AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity
If you ask ChatGPT to explain the impact AI is having on the electric grid, it cheerfully (and without a hint of irony) explains all the ways AI consumes vast amounts of power. Training models? Yup, that takes a few electrons. Answering questions – such as how much electricity is used to answer a question?… Continue reading
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The latest parlor betting game: when will AI kill all humans?
The theme of technology betraying its creators has been revisited time and time again in novels and movies such as Neuromancer, The Matrix, and of course the Terminator franchise. These plots have sat firmly in the land of science fiction, but more and more experts are warning that recent advances in AI could shift them… Continue reading