Science Policy, Ethics & Society

3+ hour, 52+ min ago   (75+ words) First discovered: 6:13 p.m. Sep. 12 Initial location: Plumas County, Calif. A new wildfire was reported today at 6:13 p.m. in Plumas County, California. Hartman Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service. At this time, there is no…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago   (667+ words) If we roll back a few years, then the trend we had was an image filter that gave you dog ears and a wagging tongue on Snapchat. But today AI can reimagine your face, clothes, surroundings and even your identity…...

2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (596+ words) I work on LensUp, which does exactly that — the whole pipeline runs in the tab, and files are never uploaded. Disclosure up front: it's our tool, and this post is about the parts that were harder than the pipeline itself....

just now   (553+ words) Artificial intelligence is becoming better at understanding us. Not just our questions or instructions, but patterns. The words we use …...

4+ hour, 32+ min ago   (659+ words) Scientists have uncovered a natural braking system that helps the immune system switch off inflammation and prevent harmful immune cells from building up. Boosting this pathway in people reduced inflammation-related immune changes and sped up pain relief, pointing toward potential…...

29+ min ago   (55+ words) Federated learning has become one of the most consequential architectures in modern machine learning, allowing hospitals, banks, factories and smartphone networks to train shared models without moving sensitive data off site. Yet the approach has long carried an uncomfortable question:…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1250+ words) The most useful starting point is a list of direct image URLs. Once you have that list, you can download the files together with a browser tool or a small command-line workflow. This tutorial covers both approaches, plus a JavaScript…...

42+ min ago   (557+ words) The “AI is going to kill us all” news cycle continued into the weekend, as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and XAI’s Elon Musk joined Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to invite independent reviewers into AI labs to ensure the world’s smartest…...

2+ hour, 16+ min ago   (714+ words) A false claim can circle the globe before the truth has finished typing its rebuttal, and one of the most urgent questions in modern network science is deceptively simple to state: who started it? A new in-depth survey published in…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago   (992+ words) AI is learning more than human knowledge. It is also learning how civilization abandons responsibility. This essay is a …...