Towards an AI for Africa
Fainos Mangena argues in Aeon that Western-developed artificial intelligence conflicts with Ubuntu values of connection and community central to African ethical life, calling for AI development that r…
Fainos Mangena argues in Aeon that Western-developed artificial intelligence conflicts with Ubuntu values of connection and community central to African ethical life, calling for AI development that r…
Misinformation, including AI-generated images and politically motivated disinformation, has spread online following the July earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan, with false claims ranging from the quake bei…
Writers are forming an anti-AI literary counterculture by deliberately avoiding AI tells like em dashes, tripartite lists, and passive voice, according to novelist Laura Brooke Robson and others. Robs…
Paperclip.inc, an open-source orchestration platform for AI agents, launches with a pricing model of €10 per company per month, offering unlimited teammates and no per-seat fees. The platform, built b…
An animator reflects on the meaning of creating art in an era of inexhaustible AI, exploring how to reclaim purpose and control in the creative process.…
Carlo Cordasco reports that using AI for preliminary exploration has collapsed the cost of testing ideas, allowing him to abandon bad questions earlier and curate a better research portfolio. However,…
An essay on Aeon argues that current metrics fail to capture the full societal impact of artificial intelligence, highlighting the need for new ways to measure AI's benefits beyond traditional quantit…
Martin Puchner argues that writers' resistance to AI overlooks the shared foundation of language between humans and machines, urging a reconsideration of the relationship.…