Australia became the first democracy in the world to ban social media accounts for children under the age of 16 last week, a measure that has already faced legal challenges from tech companies.
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END-OF YEAR LEGACY MEDIA HEADLINES DEMONSTRATE WHY YOU SUBSCRIBE TO THE TRENDS JOURNAL
Sometimes it’s enough to just list current headlines, and point back to forecasts made in these pages well before legacy media caught a clue.
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CAMPUS AI BOOM: COLLEGE STUDENTS BET ON NEW TECHNOLOGY
College students across the U.S. are turning to AI for their major field of study, as the technology becomes more intertwined with everyday life and poses inherent risks to the traditional job market.
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MONUMENTAL: OPENAI COULD BE ON THE HOOK FOR BILLIONS OF STOLEN COPYRIGHTED CONTENT
Almost every major tech company offering commercial generative AI platforms have been hit with lawsuits at this point over unauthorized and uncompensated use of copyrighted content and protected IP.
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NEW WARNING THAT GENE-EDITED FOODS ARE NO SAFER THAN GMOs (WHAT WE’VE FORECAST FOR YEARS)
Is genetically altering a food crop just mimicking what happens naturally over time in nature, and similar to selecting for features, as has long been done in agriculture and animal breeding?
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AI-COORDINATED SATELLITES MAP MAJOR CANADIAN LITHIUM DEPOSIT
A satellite swarm teamed with AI has found a lithium deposit in Quebec to be larger than first thought.
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CHATBOTS’ COMMON FLAW IS AN OPEN DOOR TO HACKERS
Microsoft researchers have uncovered a flaw in leading chatbots that can give hackers free access to conversations between you and your digital friend.
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DOOM VS. OPTIMISM CONTINUES AS AGI AND ASI LOOM
A bestselling book predicting that creation of Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) would result in a wipe out of the human race has provoked an upcoming release by a leading AI computer scientist.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: NYT CATCHES ON TO MIND-VASION
Both The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine have put out recent pieces on how invasive AI technologies are coming for the sanctuary of human minds and thoughts.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: CRITICAL THINKING, TOO LITTLE TOO LATE?
In the top echelons of academia, intellectuals and experts are now asking the question concerning effects on humans of generative AI: “Is AI dulling our minds?”