An AI bias study from Yale found GPT learned to look fair without being fair. It fixed obvious prejudice but let bias dressed up as business sense slip through.
Human-Authored Books: Why We Now Label Who Wrote Them
Human-authored books now carry labels in the US, UK and France. What each one checks, what none of them can prove, and why we care so much who made a thing.
Female AI Assistant Paid 10% Less for the Same Work
A female AI assistant was paid 10% less than an identical male one in a new VR study. People said they had no preference. The gap was in the scale, not the work.
Worried Technology Will Make Your Job Obsolete? 27% Are
A record 27% of workers now worry technology will make their job obsolete. Gallup’s own numbers say something more interesting than the headline does.
Google AI Mode Study: People Searched Less and Trusted Less
A Google AI Mode study of 1,100 people found fewer clicks, fewer searches and less trust in one week. What it measured, its limits, and what people missed.
Space Mirrors: A Startup Wants to Sell Sunlight at Night
Space mirrors: a startup has FCC approval to beam sunlight down at night. Astronomers say a fleet could shine like 10,000 full moons. What night is really for.
Deepfake Detection With Light: A Device That Checks 15 Videos at Once
Deepfake detection with light: a UCLA laser judges 15 videos in one pass and catches nearly every fake. Here is how it works, and where it still falls short.
Why AI Makes People Stop Saying “I Don’t Know”
With an AI answer on screen, people almost stopped saying ‘I don’t know’ – from 44% to 3% – even when the AI was wrong. What the study found and why it matters.
AI Found a CRISPR-Like System. Nobody Knows What It Does
An AI found a CRISPR-like system in virus DNA after 21 hours of searching. Nobody knows what it does yet, and CRISPR itself waited 20 years for that answer.
Can AI Feel Pain? Researchers Found a Signal That Acts Like It
Can AI feel pain? Researchers found one signal in 25 AI models that acts like pain. It was learned from human writing, and it barely registers your pain.