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This AI is Being Used to Detect ‘Violations of Social Norms’ in Text
New research funded by the U.S. Pentagon suggests that artificial intelligence can scan and analyse blocks of text to discern whether the humans who wrote it have done something wrong or not. The paper, written by two researchers at Ben-Gurion University, leverages predictive models that can analyse messages for what they call “social norm violations.”…
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Self-Spreading Vaccine Research Could Spin Out of Control, Experts Warn
Imagine a future scenario in which a dangerous new virus is detected in chimpanzees. To prevent this virus from spreading to humans, biologists decide to deliberately infect scores of wild chimps with a transmissible vaccine — an infectious, lab-grown virus that immunizes, rather than harms, its host. The chimps, now vaccinated, no longer pose a…
