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By Talker Research Image: Tim Gouw - Unsplash Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe children under the age of 16 should not be allowed on social media, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 Americans revealed that 62% of respondents agreed that kids 15 and under should be barred from creating social media accounts. With discussions ramping up around the topic, the research aimed to…
Ziv Epstein , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ; Farnaz Jahanbakhsh , University of Michigan , and Michael Bernstein , Stanford University Image: Berke Citak - Unsplash Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the algorithms supplying…
By Tanya Petersen, EPFL As AI assistants evolve into AI agents, a new EPFL study has found that the biggest safety risks in their use may not come from single malicious prompts, but from carefully orchestrated conversations. Image: Roman Budnikov - Unsplash Today, most of us interact with AI assistants - reactive bots that wait for human instructions. Yet, AI assistants are rapidly being replaced…
Jongkil Jay Jeong , The University of Melbourne ; RMIT University ; Deakin University Image: For illustration purposes, created by DIW with GenAI tools. Imagine your team has been tasked to deliver a high-stakes policy paper under intense time pressure. Everyone turns to generative artificial intelligence (AI) and within minutes, it delivers a full draft complete with structured arguments and…
By Inderscience Research in the International Journal of Sustainable Development has looked at eight of the nations involved in the Second World War, both Allied and Axis countries, and shows how that period of history helped set societies on the path to the resource-intensive modern economies we have today. The research links wartime mobilisation to the period known as the Great Acceleration in…
Muneera Bano , CSIRO and Didar Zowghi , CSIRO Image: Google DeepMind - Unsplash In the United States, leading HR software company Workday is currently facing a lawsuit over its use of job screening tools powered by AI which allegedly discriminated against applicants based on factors such as age, disability and race. The company, whose hiring software is widely used by large employers around the…
By Sophia La Banca, Agência FAPESP Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, examined the ideological stance of large language models – artificial intelligence systems trained to understand and generate human language – and discovered that when informed of a user’s political views, they tend to mirror those views. According to the researchers,…
By Felix Richter, Statista While virtually everybody is on social media these days, people from different generations live in parallel online universes, where older users mostly stick to Facebook and YouTube and younger users spread their use across numerous platforms. According to Statista Consumer Insights , YouTube and Facebook are the two platforms that Americans across generations can agree…
By Ellie Stewart Job seekers looking to increase their AI skillset in order to land their next role may be building AI skills that hiring professionals aren’t necessarily looking for. New research by Adobe Acrobat reveals that there is a gap between the skills related to AI that people are acquiring and those that employers really value. Moreover, the idea that people should get more technical…
By McGill University Study on the 2019 global climate strikes shows how strangers can discover shared narratives and mobilize together. Image: Chris Sansbury - Unsplash Online conflict tends to advance social movements rather than undermine them, according to new research from McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management. “Anyone who has watched an online debate turn heated assumes arguing kills…
By Felix Richter, Statista Social media may have been built to connect people, but entertainment and diversion now appear to be its main draws. According to Statista Consumer Insights, nearly half of U.S. respondents say entertainment is an important criterion when it comes to social media, ahead of passing time and communicating with friends and family. Among young adults aged 18 to 29, the…
By Joe Stafford, University of Manchester China’s dominance of batteries, electric vehicles and solar power is helping drive global decarbonisation - but creating tensions with the UK and other Western economies. Image: Dominic Kurniawan Suryaputra - Unsplash China’s dominance of key green technologies is helping to subsidise the global transition to a low-carbon economy, but trade tensions could…
