A playbook for crafting AI strategy
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Giddy predictions about AI, from its contributions to economic growth to the onset of mass automation, are now as frequent as the release of powerful new generative AI models. The consultancy PwC, for example, predicts that AI could boost global gross domestic product (GDP) 14% by 2030, generating US $15.7 trillion. Forty percent of our…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/05/1095447/a-playbook-for-crafting-ai-strategy/
The Download: the risks of addictive AI, and hydrogen bikes’ limitations
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’ —By Robert Mahari, a joint JD-PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School whose work focuses on computational law, and Pat Pataranutaporn, a…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/05/1095656/download-risks-addictive-ai-hydrogen-bikes/
We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’
AI concerns overemphasize harms arising from subversion rather than seduction. Worries about AI often imagine doomsday scenarios where systems escape human control or even understanding. Short of those nightmares, there are nearer-term harms we should take seriously: that AI could jeopardize public discourse through misinformation; cement biases in loan decisions, judging or hiring; or disrupt…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/05/1095600/we-need-to-prepare-for-addictive-intelligence/
The Download: making tough decisions with AI, and the significance of toys
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A personalized AI tool might help some reach end-of-life decisions—but it won’t suit everyone —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life…
The Download: making tough decisions with AI, and the significance of toys
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A personalized AI tool might help some reach end-of-life decisions—but it won’t suit everyone —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life…
The Download: making tough decisions with AI, and the significance of toys
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A personalized AI tool might help some reach end-of-life decisions—but it won’t suit everyone —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life…
A personalized AI tool might help some reach end-of-life decisions—but it won’t suit everyone
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life care. We’re talking about the kinds of life-and-death decisions that come…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/02/1095573/ai-end-of-life-decisions-wont-suit-everyone/
A personalized AI tool might help some reach end-of-life decisions—but it won’t suit everyone
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. This week, I’ve been working on a piece about an AI-based tool that could help guide end-of-life care. We’re talking about the kinds of life-and-death decisions that come…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/02/1095573/ai-end-of-life-decisions-wont-suit-everyone/
The Download: AI’s end of life decisions, and green investing
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. End of life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help? End-of-life decisions can be extremely upsetting for surrogates—the people who have to make those calls on behalf of another person. Friends or…
End of life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help?
A few months ago, a woman in her mid-50s, let’s call her Sophie, experienced a hemorrhagic stroke. Her brain started to bleed. She underwent brain surgery, but her heart stopped beating. Sophie’s ordeal left her with significant brain damage. She was unresponsive; she couldn’t squeeze her fingers or open her eyes when asked, and she…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/01/1095551/end-of-life-decisions-ai-help/
Why investors care about climate tech’s green premium
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Talking about money can be difficult, but it’s a crucial piece of the puzzle when it comes to climate tech. I’ve been thinking more about the financial piece of climate innovation since…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/01/1095543/climate-tech-green-premium/
Reimagining cloud strategy for AI-first enterprises
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The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing, and computer vision has sparked lofty predictions: AI will revolutionize business operations, transform the nature of knowledge work, and boost companies’ bottom lines and the larger global economy by trillions of dollars. Executives and technology leaders are eager to see these promises realized, and many…
The Download: ethics in physics, and talking to ChatGPT
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US physics community is not done working on trust —Frances Houle, Kate Kirby, Laura Greene & Michael Marder In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into claims made by Ranga…
A controversial Chinese CRISPR scientist is still hopeful about embryo gene-editing. Here’s why.
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Back in 2018, it was my colleague Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine, who broke the story that a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui had used CRISPR to edit the genes of…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/31/1095509/he-jiankui-hopeful-gene-editing/
The US physics community is not done working on trust
In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into claims made by Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, in two high-profile papers the journal had published about the discovery of room-temperature superconductivity. Those two papers, which showed evidence of fabricated data, were eventually retracted, along with other papers from the Dias…
The US physics community is not done working on trust
In April 2024, Nature released detailed information about investigations into claims made by Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester, in two high-profile papers the journal had published about the discovery of room-temperature superconductivity. Those two papers, which showed evidence of fabricated data, were eventually retracted, along with other papers from the Dias…
OpenAI has released a new ChatGPT bot that you can talk to
OpenAI is rolling out an advanced AI chatbot that you can talk to. It’s available today—at least for some. The new chatbot represents OpenAI’s push into a new generation of AI-powered voice assistants in the vein of Siri and Alexa, but with far more capabilities to enable more natural, fluent conversations. It is a step…
The Download: rebuilding economic security, and solving math problems
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How the US and its allies can rebuild economic security —Edlyn V. Levine is CEO and co-founder of a stealth-mode technology start up and an affiliate at MIT Sloan School of…
How the US and its allies can rebuild economic security
A country’s economic security—its ability to generate both national security and economic prosperity—is grounded in it having significant technological capabilities that outpace those of its adversaries and complement those of its allies. Though this is a principle well known throughout history, the move over the last few decades toward globalization and offshoring of technologically advanced…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/30/1095439/usa-economic-security-competitiveness/
How the US and its allies can rebuild economic security
A country’s economic security—its ability to generate both national security and economic prosperity—is grounded in it having significant technological capabilities that outpace those of its adversaries and complement those of its allies. Though this is a principle well known throughout history, the move over the last few decades toward globalization and offshoring of technologically advanced…
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/07/30/1095439/usa-economic-security-competitiveness/