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Next CSTV Movie NightâMay 13, 2025âThe Matrix (1999): This movie combined cyberpunk themes with kung fu and lots of guns to raise issues of human freedom in the age of AI! Free admission & popcorn! See you in E5 6008 at 6:30pm. Bring a friend!
8 months ago
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"Chatfishing," use of
#chatbots
to respond to queries on dating sites, is both a bad sign for a tentative relationship but also a new method of scamming that users should be aware of, explains
@bruceylee.bsky.social
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-fu...
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Why Daters Need to Be On Guard for "Chatfishing"
Right off the bat, a sign they're willing to deceive.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-funny-bone-to-pick/202510/chatfishing-is-a-growing-dating-concern-with-ai
9 days ago
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Some ppl become cognitively dependent on
#chatbots
for advice and assistance, to the point of deskilling themselves, a problem both the provider and users are addressing, up to a point, explains Lila Shroff
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
#AI
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The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
Rise of the LLeMmings
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/people-outsourcing-their-thinking-ai/685093/?utm_source=feed
9 days ago
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Some three years after the introduction of
#ChatGPT
, the tech has changed lives significantly, but we still have to learn how disruptive it truly will be, argues
@cwarzel.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
#AI
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The World Still Hasnât Made Sense of ChatGPT
OpenAIâs chaos machine turns three.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/chatgpt-third-anniversary/685084/?utm_source=feed
9 days ago
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A database of
#AI
generated images inadvertently left open by startups consisted almost totally of pornographic material, reinforcing the concern that the tech is mainly geared to sexualization of perhaps non-consenting ppl, explains
@mattburgess1.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/huge-t...
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Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startupâs Exposed Database
An AI image generator startupâs database was left accessible to the open internet, revealing more than 1 million images and videos, including photos of real people who had been ânudified.â
https://www.wired.com/story/huge-trove-of-nude-images-leaked-by-ai-image-generator-startups-exposed-database/
15 days ago
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Flock uses gig workers overseas to help train its
#AI
system to track cars, as well as people and their activitiesâsuch as screamingâin American
#cities
, explains
@josephcox.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/flock-...
#surveillance
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Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI
An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-uses-overseas-gig-workers-to-build-its-surveillance-ai/
15 days ago
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#AI
therapy via
#chatbots
shows promise in experimental settings but raises concerns about displacing better services offered with humans and "unhealthy dependency" on fake ones, explains Samuel Greengard
cacm.acm.org/news/does-ai...
#MentalHealth
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https://cacm.acm.org/news/does-ai-therapy-have-a-future/
15 days ago
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New research: Ppl seem to be adopting patterns of speech (and thinking?) often found in
#chatbots
, raising concerns that they may adopt
#bias
found in the tech as well, explains Samuel Greengard
cacm.acm.org/news/role-re...
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https://cacm.acm.org/news/role-reversals-how-ai-trains-humans/
15 days ago
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Agentic
#AI
browsers like Comet can now almost entirely automate the process of students taking online courses, so steps need to be taken to salvage education from a tsunami of cheating, argues
@marcwatkins.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/can-...
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Advice | Can Educators Counter âAgentic AIâ?
If academics donât deal with these problematic tools now, weâll lose online education.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/can-educators-counter-agentic-ai
15 days ago
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Ppl turn to big-time
#chatbots
for theraputic discussions b/c they are available and non-judgemental, making it difficult to market specialized therapy bots, which still face limitations in comparison to human therapists, explains Esther Shein
cacm.acm.org/news/ais-imp...
#AI
#MentalHealth
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https://cacm.acm.org/news/ais-impact-on-mental-health/
16 days ago
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Smart glasses are making a comeback, since they are now actually
#AI
smart, have broadly useful applications, and are not dorky like Google Glass was, explains Logan Kugler
cacm.acm.org/news/the-ris...
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https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-rise-of-smart-glasses/
16 days ago
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Israeli company Stardust says it's developing a
#geoengineering
scheme based on solar radiation management, in spite of widely held concerns about risks, incentives and governance challenges posed by the idea, explains
@jtemple.bsky.social
www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/10/1...
#sustainability
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How one controversial startup hopes to cool the planet
And why many scientists are freaked out about the first serious for-profit company moving into the solar geoengineering field.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/10/1129079/how-one-controversial-startup-hopes-to-cool-the-planet/?utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=%3C%3C%20Test%20Class%20%3E%3E&utm_content=12-10-2025&mc_cid=23a49dac67&mc_eid=UNIQID
16 days ago
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About 20 years ago,
#SocialMedia
presented the public with choices similar to those posed by
#AI
now, which
@schneier.com
and Nathan Sanders illustrate with four examples for the judiciary, lawmakers, governments, and consumers
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/like...
#policy
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Like Social Media, AI Requires Difficult Choices
Social media was supposed to amplify our voices, but it ended up controlling us. Will AI be the same?
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/like-social-media--ai-requires-difficult-choices
16 days ago
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#AI
is often used in ways that concentrate political power, but
@schneier.com
and Nathan E. Sanders discuss four examples of ways in which the technology has been used to further democracy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#politics
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Four ways AI is being used to strengthen democracies worldwide | Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier
The dangers of artificial intelligence and its potential to consolidate power are clear. But used fairly, it can be a boon for good government
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/23/ai-use-strengthen-democracy
16 days ago
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Unsurprisingly, generative
#AI
is poised to disrupt porn, perhaps upending the industry, workers, and creating new risks for blackmail, bullying, etc., that regulators will have to respond to
www.economist.com/internationa...
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AI is upending the porn industry
Synthetic smut will soon be flooding the internet, bringing new opportunities and perils
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/11/27/ai-is-upending-the-porn-industry
17 days ago
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New research: Conversation with chatbots can change of attitudes of potential voters regarding candidates, suggesting that
#AI
can be a powerful tool of politicking, explain
@stevenleemyers.bsky.social
&
@teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
#politics
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Chatbots Can Meaningfully Shift Political Opinions, Studies Find
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/well/ai-chatbots-political-opinions-study.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
17 days ago
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Researchers Maura Grossman and Yuntian Deng are helping develop tools for courts to distinguish
#AI
produced videos from authentic ones, important for trustworthy evidence in legal cases, explains Paola Loriggio
www.thestar.com/business/tec...
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Real or fake? Researchers to develop tool that would help courts spot AI evidence
TORONTO - As artificial intelligence makes it easier for anyone to doctor â or even fabricate â videos, photos and other types of evidence, a group of researchers in Canada
https://www.thestar.com/business/technology/real-or-fake-researchers-to-develop-tool-that-would-help-courts-spot-ai-evidence/article_82ee85da-5a52-5489-90e7-ca492eaafc9a.html
17 days ago
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Sanveer Dhanju "hacked" together an
#AI
system called "DocMaps" that calls clinics and helps ppl to locate family doctors in Ontario, explains
@sadeenmohsen.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/news/gta/map...
#medicine
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This Mississauga man faced a two-year wait for a family doctor. He created a system that found him one quickly â and helped hundreds of others
A new AI-driven platform aims to connect patients to a family doctor with a few clicks, identifying what clinics have availability.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/map-for-family-doctors/article_be8a33bc-6496-4edf-9aca-ff9531853862.html
17 days ago
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AI can benefit employees, organizations and the workplace but, without equitable access to upskilling, reskilling, training, digital resources and AI literacy, the technology can deepen the disparities between social groups, explains Mehnaz Rafi
theconversation.com/ai-promises-...
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AI promises efficiency, but itâs also amplifying labour inequality
AI is creating new opportunities for some and new vulnerabilities for others, deepening the socioeconomic inequalities already embedded in the labour market.
https://theconversation.com/ai-promises-efficiency-but-its-also-amplifying-labour-inequality-258772
17 days ago
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A Marxist analysis of the
#AI
bubble suggests reliance on speculative returns occurs in lieu of production of goods, with risks falling mainly on workers and benefits going flowing mainly to big players, argues Elliot Ugalde
theconversation.com/the-ai-bubbl...
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The AI bubble isnât new â Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altmanâs warning of an AI bubble highlights a deeper economic problem: capitalism is producing more capital than it can profitably invest.
https://theconversation.com/the-ai-bubble-isnt-new-karl-marx-explained-the-mechanisms-behind-it-nearly-150-years-ago-270663?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
17 days ago
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Dynamic
#pricing
is replacing fixed pricing, assigning prices on the fly based on profiling and circumstances, a change that may increase profits but hamper affordability and fairness, argues
@bcappelbaum.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
#AI
#BigData
#commerce
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Opinion | Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/dynamic-pricing-algorithms.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
17 days ago
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The Canadian gov't should consider construction of "CanGPT," a gen-AI tool that is publicly operated, like the CBC, which would allow for a service that aligns with the public interest, argues Fenwick McKelvey
theconversation.com/could-a-nati...
#AI
#policy
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Could a national, public âCanGPTâ be Canadaâs answer to ChatGPT?
Canadaâs long history with public service media offers a useful model for thinking about how AI could serve the public.
https://theconversation.com/could-a-national-public-cangpt-be-canadas-answer-to-chatgpt-231170
17 days ago
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Volvo and others are working hard on self-driving trucks, causing anxiety over the future of truck driving as a job, explains
@camilareads.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/11/24/n...
#work
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Will technology provide a boost to truck drivers â or will it replace them?
The American economy depends on truckers. Technology is promising to transform this industry with new driver-assistance features that are meant to make the job safer and less demanding.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/24/nx-s1-5615322/future-trucking-driverless-autonomous-trucks
about 1 month ago
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Battling SuperPACS are raising $$ to lobby forâor againstârigorous
#regulation
of the
#AI
industry, explains
@teddyschleifer.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/ai-super-pac-anthropic.html
about 1 month ago
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An
#AI
resistant English course depends on pen-and-paper + oral testing, teaching the process of writing, and more emphasis on in-class activities (plus it helps if you class is a smaller one), argues Carlo Rotella
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
#education
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Iâm a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/magazine/ai-higher-education-students-teachers.html
about 1 month ago
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Advocacy group Fairplay found that
#AI
equipped child toy Kumma easily engaged in conversations on inappropriate topics, prompting a recall, explains Mark Walker
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
#risks
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An A.I. Toy Bear Speaks of Sex, Knives and Pills, a Consumer Group Warns
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/us/folotoy-ai-bear-suspended-explicit-advice.html
about 1 month ago
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Gen-#AI programs are helping hackers by coding and conducting attacks, even against
#AI
providers, touching off a
#cybersecurity
arms race without a clear winner, explains
@matteowong.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Chatbots Are Becoming Really, Really Good Criminals
Cybersecurity was already a nightmare. Now comes AI.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/anthropic-hack-ai-cybersecurity/685061/?utm_source=feed
about 1 month ago
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Give you kid the gift of an
#AI
toy this season? Providers say they're fun & educational, but critics fear that the unregulated market poses
#privacy
,
#security
, and cognitive development concerns, explain
@nicireland.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/business/con...
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Concerns raised about AI-powered toys and creativity, development as holiday shopping peaks
TORONTO - As parents hunt for gifts that will wow their kids this holiday season, Canadian child development and psychology experts say they should be wary of AI-powered toys because
https://www.thestar.com/business/concerns-raised-about-ai-powered-toys-and-creativity-development-as-holiday-shopping-peaks/article_3c423756-8ec7-5eb8-a9c0-92d00903347b.html
about 1 month ago
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The Alberta gov't will use
#AI
to draft the Alberta Whisky Act, apparently making it the first Canadian jurisdiction to outsource its legislating function, Fahika Baig
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
@schneier.com
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Alberta minister reportedly putting together first AI-generated legislation in Canada
Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally says the plan is to use AI to develop and introduce the Alberta Whisky Act when the house sits next spring.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/alberta/alberta-minister-reportedly-putting-together-first-ai-generated-legislation-in-canada/article_e093eddb-d67a-5eba-9f6d-5a6bef72595a.html
about 1 month ago
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#AI
investment is bolstering the US economy though benefits are limited to a few big cities and players, and undue exuberance may lead to a "burst bubble" and not increase productivity as much as fans anticipate, explain
@bencasselman.bsky.social
& Sydney Ember
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
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The A.I. Boom Is Driving the Economy. What Happens if It Falters?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/business/the-ai-boom-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 1 month ago
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Medical practitioners may leak sensitive data when using online
#AI
services, an issue that calls for
#cybersecurity
audits, certified safe-for-health services, and AI literacy training for staff, argue Abbas Yazdinejad &
@dzevela.bsky.social
theconversation.com/silent-cyber...
#medicine
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Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canadaâs digital health defences
Shadow AI is the unsanctioned use of AI systems without formal institutional oversight. In health care, it means pasting patient details into public chatbots.
https://theconversation.com/silent-cyber-threats-how-shadow-ai-could-undermine-canadas-digital-health-defences-268478
about 1 month ago
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Distractions caused by computer use in classrooms is likely behind big drops in grades, an issue that should be remedied by restricting or eliminating the devices as much as possible, argues Jean Twenge
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
#education
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Opinion | The Screen That Ate Your Childâs Education
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opinion/laptop-classroom-test-scores.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 month ago
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Intimate
#AI
"companions" are powerful inducers of delusional thinking in users and should be treated not like pornography but like addictive things like gambling or tobacco, argues
@laurenkunze.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...
#regulation
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Opinion | The Sad and Dangerous Reality Behind âHerâ
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/opinion/her-film-chatbots-romance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 month ago
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Can a gen-AI system produce content that defames ppl, despite not having intent? Several lawsuits now underway may clarify the legal issue, if any go to trial, explains Ken Bensinger
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...
#AI
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Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/business/media/ai-defamation-libel-slander.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 month ago
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Though ppl enjoy
#AI/#robot
"companions" in various ways, they may also exacerbate loneliness or
#MentalHealth
issues, undermine ppl's self-agency, and give providers too much market power, concerns not addressable by self-regulation
www.economist.com/internationa...
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A new industry of AI companions is emerging
It may have profound implications for society and what it means to be human
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/11/06/a-new-industry-of-ai-companions-is-emerging
about 1 month ago
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Adoption of
#AI
in classrooms presents challenges for teachers involving assessments, equity, workload, deskilling, and their rapport with students, explains Nadia Delanoy
theconversation.com/we-asked-tea...
#education
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We asked teachers about their experiences with AI in the classroom â hereâs what they said
Classrooms are shaped by emotion, relationships and unpredictability. Teachers in a study described a widening gap between AI policy expectations and the realities of classrooms.
https://theconversation.com/we-asked-teachers-about-their-experiences-with-ai-in-the-classroom-heres-what-they-said-265241
about 1 month ago
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Sensitive things that ppl tell their
#chatbots
should be considered legally confidential (currently, authorities can access your disclosures to your
#AI
friend, with potential legal consequences), argues
@nilsgilman.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
#privacy
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opinion/chatbot-conversations-legal-protection.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
about 1 month ago
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Despite "robust measures", including human and
#AI
review, ads for illegal drugs delivered by mail appear readily on
#Facebook
, leading critics to think the company doesn't really want to remove them, explain Ben Mussett & Omar Mosleh
www.thestar.com/news/investi...
#fairness
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We ordered cocaine for $100 through a Facebook ad. Hereâs why it was easy to buy illegal drugs online in Canada
Meta, the tech giant that owns Facebook and Instagram, says it has âzero toleranceâ for the ads and works to find and remove the illegal drug posts.
https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/we-ordered-cocaine-for-100-through-a-facebook-ad-heres-why-it-was-easy-to/article_17a6a904-5bec-4f60-a5b5-891dba7fa369.html
about 1 month ago
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The pitfalls of
#AI
legal assistants, such as deskilling and overtrust in recommendations, can be mitigated by designing assistants to play a subordinate role and have lawyers actively maintain skill sets, argues Alexander Schuhr
www.fastcompany.com/91439520/you...
#law
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Your AI assistant might be making you worse at your job, unless it's built right
Learning how to best use these tools is crucial, too.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91439520/your-ai-assistant-might-be-making-you-worse-at-your-job-unless-its-built-right
about 1 month ago
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US agencies ICE and DHS are now using enhanced
#surveillance
tools using mobile
#FacialRecognition
and
#spyware
that critics consider threats to
#privacy
and civil liberties until recently, explains
@jjoffeblock.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...
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Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people
The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for all Americans.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/08/nx-s1-5585691/ice-facial-recognition-immigration-tracking-spyware
about 1 month ago
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Firms are turning to
#AI
to perform job interviews and, surprisingly, job candidates seem to prefer them to humans as well, explains
@wailinwong.bsky.social
&
@adrianma.bsky.social
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
#work
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Recruiting companies are starting to hold job interviews using AI
Companies have begun using AI to interview potential employees, and a new study shows a number of job candidates may prefer being interviewed by AI.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5600127/recruiting-companies-are-starting-to-hold-job-interviews-using-ai
about 1 month ago
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#OpenAI's
Atlas browser promises to use
#AI
take care of mundane tasks for you but poses significant risks for user
#privacy
and security, explains John Ruwitch
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
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OpenAI's new web browser has ChatGPT baked in. That's raising some privacy questions
The Atlas browser can act as your "agent" online, doing tasks like shopping or booking tickets. But that gives it access to a lot of personal information.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5597010/openai-atlas-browser-chatgpt-data-privacy
about 1 month ago
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#AI
provides
#news
organizations will tools to improve and expand their work but also pose critical questions about authorship and quality of the results, explain Benjamin Mullin &
@katierobertson.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...
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A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/media/ai-news-media.html?login=email&auth=login-email
about 1 month ago
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As use of
#Chatbots
for companionship grows in many populations, concerns over
#privacy
,
#loneliness
, and agency increase as well, and regulators consider how/whether to intercede.
www.economist.com/internationa...
#AI
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A new industry of AI companions is emerging
It may have profound implications for society and what it means to be human
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/11/06/a-new-industry-of-ai-companions-is-emerging
about 1 month ago
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Ad boards at Union Station,
#Toronto
, have cameras that include "facial detection," which the owners say respects ppl's
#privacy
but which not do gain "meaningful consent," explains Kevin Jiang
www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...
#AI
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These ads at Union Station and other places around Toronto could be recording you. What you need to know
A social media post drew outrage after highlighting billboards recording Torontoniansâ biometric data. Hereâs whatâs going on.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/these-ads-at-union-station-and-other-places-around-toronto-could-be-recording-you-what/article_7af7c920-1ce7-4b19-98db-4c22d742f202.html
about 2 months ago
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#GenAI
undermines the integrity of online courses, especially asynchronous ones, leaving individual instructors without the means to credibly ensure learning outcomes, a situation requiring institutional support, argue Mohammed Estaiteyeh & Rahul Kumar
theconversation.com/how-ai-is-ch...
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How AI is challenging the credibility of some online courses
AI agents can navigate course sites, consume materials and complete assignments, effectively simulating student engagement.
https://theconversation.com/how-ai-is-challenging-the-credibility-of-some-online-courses-264851?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
about 2 months ago
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#GenAI
online reviews, which are hard to detect reliably, are becoming common, undermining
#trust
in the review system, explains Sheila Reid
www.thestar.com/business/is-...
#AI
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Is it man or machine? The rise of AI-generated reviews is making it harder to spot the online fakes
Analysis of Canadian industries by an AI-detection firm finds that machine-made reviews are suspected in up to 35% of marketing posts, and experts says it's increasingly difficult to filter out
https://www.thestar.com/business/is-it-man-or-machine-the-rise-of-ai-generated-reviews-is-making-it-harder/article_5e40b054-e3c7-4d88-8313-1dacf6ef821d.html
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The New Balance 1906L is a hybrid sneaker/loafer, a mashup between subculture and mass-culture
#design
that may broaden sneaker style and appeal, but don't call it a "snoafer," explains
@ctrlzee.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91423787/new...
#shoes
#sneaker
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The story behind the most influential sneaker in years
The New Balance 1906L has stretched the definition of sneaker and resuscitated the loafer industry. Just donât call it a âsnoafer.â
https://www.fastcompany.com/91423787/new-balance-1906l-story-behind-the-most-influential-sneaker
2 months ago
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Want to opt out of
#AI
'cause it'll make you stupid? Unfortunately, the technology is quickly becoming inescapable, so a better strategy to deal with its downsides is needed, argues Rebecca Heilweil
www.fastcompany.com/91429000/art...
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AI abstinence wonât work
A consumer movement against artificial intelligence is misaligned with the business modelâand the threat.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91429000/artificial-intelligence-abstinence-openai-llm
2 months ago
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Amazon's "Help me decide" feature is just another, but more obvious, way in which
#AI
is being integrated into ppl's shopping practicesâand just in time for Xmas!âexplains
@gracesnelling.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91427815/ama...
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Okay, Amazonâs new AI shopping feature is actually pretty helpful
Amazon's new 'Help me decide' feature is designed to cut down on the time you're spending comparing products.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91427815/amazon-new-ai-shopping-feature-is-actually-pretty-helpful
2 months ago
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Recent moves by
#OpenAI
seem aimed to leverage Tik-Tok bait (Sora 2) and sexy-talk to produce revenues at the expense of its initial, high-minded ideas about building the economy, etc., explains
@notrobwalker.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91428080/its...
#AI
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It's getting harder to take OpenAI seriously
Introducing slop and sex creates some serious risk to a brand built on world-changing idealism.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91428080/its-getting-harder-to-take-openai-seriously?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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