Author: Akhil Bhardwaj, Associate Professor (Strategy and Organisation), School of Management, University of Bath

Genesis Mission: why Trump’s plan to put AIs in charge of science could backfire

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[ad_1] Donald Trump’s new “Genesis Mission” initiative promises to use artificial intelligence to reinvent how science is done, in a bid to move the dial on the hardest challenges in areas like robotics, biotech and nuclear fusion. It imagines a system in which AI designs experiments, executes them, learns from the results and continually proposes […]

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How AI can (and can’t) help lighten your load at work

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[ad_1] Legend has it that William Tell shot an apple from his young son’s head. While there are many interpretations of the tale, from the perspective of the theory of technology, a few are especially salient. First, Tell was an expert marksman. Second, he knew his bow was reliable but understood it was just a […]

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How the risk of AI weapons could spiral out of control

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[ad_1] marina.rodrigues/Shutterstock Sometimes AI isn’t as clever as we think it is. Researchers training an algorithm to identify skin cancer thought they had succeeded until they discovered that it was using the presence of a ruler to help it make predictions. Specifically, their data set consisted of images where a pathologist had put in a […]

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