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As U.S. cities prepare to host the FIFA World Cup, familiar warnings about human trafficking “spikes” at major sporting events have reemerged. This is all well intentioned. But as experts in human ...

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New UC San Diego research suggests the line between human and machine is increasingly drawn around social behavior as much as knowledge UC San Diego researchers ran a rigorous three-party Turing test ...

For quite a long time, the most common assertion regarding the threats presented by AI has been that even the most advanced systems will never reach the point where they will replace humans who are ...

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"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...