African Content Moderators Have Worse Mental Health than Global Peers, Study Finds
What to Know: The global content moderation divide Content moderators are the front-line workers of the internet: the people who remove traumatic content from social media platforms and AI datasets.…
‘I Have This Baby on the Way. Are We Doomed?’: Inside ‘The AI Doc’
In 2023, around the same time that director Daniel Roher began working on a film about AI and the future of humanity, he and his wife Caroline found out that…
What Cities Need To Consider Before Allowing Self-Driving Cars
The quiet arrival of Waymo driverless vehicles in Chicago raises one of the most consequential questions facing modern cities: How do we balance embracing transformative technology while ensuring public safety?…
Israel Vows to ‘Intensify and Expand’ Strikes Against Iran, as Tehran Warns Civilians Near U.S. Targets to Evacuate
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said Friday that Israel will “intensify and expand” its military campaign against Iran, as Iranian forces warned civilians near U.S. military positions to evacuate ahead…
AI Slop Is Flooding Streaming—and Musicians Are Fighting Back
In late February, the British singer-songwriter Benedict Cork posted a snippet of himself playing a soulful new song called “Something Kinda Strange.” The clip quickly racked up more than 100,000…