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How To Tackle Misinformation and Enhance the Scientific Temperament of Our Society
April 24, 2024
Puneet Seth

We live in strangely dichotomous times where our society continues to make scientific progress by leaps and bounds—the mRNA vaccines (Barbier et al. 2022), the James Webb Space Telescope (Witze 2022), artificial intelligence (Wallis 2019) being the recent crowning scientific achievements—but...

 

Looking for the Bright Side of the AI Apocalypse
Volume 48, No. 3
May/June 2024
Guy P. Harrison

Rumors of impending artificial intelligence (AI) doom got you down? Take heart, there may be light at the end of this tunnel—and not all of it from the headlight of a self-driving locomotive. No, sorry, you can’t be sure that a precocious bundle of algorithms won’t take your job (Cao...

 

Analyzing Conspiracies through Folklore, Epidemiology, and Artificial Intelligence
Volume 48, No. 3
May/June 2024
Benjamin Radford

Digital disinformation is becoming a widely recognized threat—especially to public health—with unprecedented amounts of misinformation available online. In his first advisory, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (2021) issued a stark warning that “Health misinformation is a serious threat to public...

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