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Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
While lawmakers iron out the details, advocates hope this approach could serve as a model for addressing histories of environmental hazards often concentrated in Black and low-income neighborhoods.
More than eight decades on, the UN General Assembly remains the place where the UN’s 193 Member States come together to debate the defining challenges of the day, from war and peace – to development, climate change and h...
For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life.
The long historical record shows that big technology changes like AIdo not get rid of many job types but does change their content.
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Countries and companies are investing in technologies for underwater use amid concerns about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure on the ocean floor.