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David M. Berry

Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Sussex. His research specialises in the theoretical and medium-specific challenges of understanding digital and computational media, particularly algorithms, software and code.

Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Sussex. His research specialises in the theoretical and medium-specific challenges of understanding digital and computational media, particularly algorithms, software and code.

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Tipping points and the Earth's system

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Giuseppina D’Oro

Human history in the age of the Anthropocene

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Wessel Reijers,Morshed Mannan

Could blockchain end big tech?

Michael Paul Nelson

Nature is not a resource for humans

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The dangers of Zuckerberg's metaverse

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The new science of extreme weather

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Brian Patrick Green

Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong

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How technology will revolutionise relationships

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Mikkel Krenchel,Maria Cury

We should all be worried about synthetic data

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Google's AI is not sentient. Not even slightly

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Roman V. Yampolskiy

The AI containment problem

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Technological determinism is wrong

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The dangers of science behind closed doors

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Why electric cars are a mistake

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Susan Hespos,Brendan Dalton

Why we have the future of AI wrong

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Why AI must learn to forget

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Emily M. Bender,Chirag Shah

All-knowing machines are a fantasy

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AI may need sleep too

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Bernardo Kastrup

The lunacy of 'machine consciousness'

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Susan Schneider

'Machine consciousness' is not lunacy

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Martin Rees,Donald Goldsmith

The end of astronauts

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Machine Life

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Google, Amazon and Plato’s Cave

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The culture of bees and the AI apocalypse

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Alexis Papazoglou

AI and the end of reason

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Controlling the threats from AI

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AI, Moloch, and the race to the bottom

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Stem cells: the hype and the dangerous reality

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Ancient traits in modern life

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N. Katherine Hayles

The end of being human