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NIST Risk Management Framework Aims to Improve Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence
Source: National Institute of Standards and Technology New guidance seeks to cultivate trust in AI technologies and promote AI innovation while mitigating risk.
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Strategic Blended Learning in Higher Education
Source: Faculty Focus What does the strategic combination of online and in-person (blended learning) instruction really look like in higher education?
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A robot was scheduled to argue in court, then came the jail threats
Source: NPR The man behind a startup called DoNotPay planned to use AI to help fight a traffic ticket. But professional lawyers shut it down.
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Study Uncovers Widespread Unethical Practice for Assigning Authorships
Source: Lab Manager The efficacy of monitoring air and wastewater for viruses and other pathogens during public health crises has been repeatedly demonstrated, and feasibility is greater than ever.
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From Halo to The Simpsons, would fictional mad scientists pass ethical review?
Source: Science Members of research oversight committees put some of pop culture’s most infamous innovators under the microscope.
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Mercedes-Benz DRIVE PILOT becomes first Level 3 autonomous driving system to be certified for US roads
Source: Electrek Mercedes-Benz may be celebrating on the casino floor in Las Vegas right now – it has announced its DRIVE PILOT.
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Quantum Computers Could Solve Countless Problems—And Create a Lot of New Ones
Source: TIME Quantum computing is the ‘next industrial revolution’, but it's also set to become a national-security headache.
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Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use
Source: Nature As researchers dive into the brave new world of advanced AI chatbots, publishers need to acknowledge their legitimate uses and lay down clear guidelines to avoid abuse.
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An ALS patient set a record for communicating via a brain implant: 62 words per minute
Source: MIT Technology Review Brain interfaces could let paralyzed people speak at almost normal speeds.
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The Feds Are Investigating How Big Data Hurts Marginalized Groups
Source: Gizmodo The Commerce Department is inviting comments on how the problems of data harvesting worsen structural inequality.
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Intellectual property and assisted reproductive technology
Source: Nature Over the past fifty years, intellectual property has not played a major role in the spread of assisted reproductive technology, but with in vitro gametogenesis — a technique likely to dominate the future of reproduction — it might.
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These scientists used CRISPR to put an alligator gene into catfish
Source: MIT Technology Review The resulting fish appear to be more resistant to disease and could improve commercial production—should they ever be approved.
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