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🔒 First they deploy AI. Then they ask if it’s legal.
Many organizations can’t tell whether their use of AI involves processing personal data, or whether they’re prepared for it. The problem starts when questions about legal compliance come up only after a…
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🔒 The invisible trace: debate over AI text watermarks
Anthropic wants to leave an invisible, machine-detectable trace in texts generated by Claude. Is that a step toward greater transparency or an unfair generalization?
🔒 Paper for machines. Why does AI need old books?
These days, books are gaining a value no one was looking for in them just a few years ago. In a world that’s increasingly filled with AI-generated content, paper might turn out…
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🔒 The end of reading tea leaves? AI regulations (will be) based on facts
For years, the AI debate has been driven by big promises and equally big warnings that often couldn’t be confirmed. The UN is now trying to build a scientific evidence base that…
🔒 Brain in a box
When I tossed out my old laptop a few years ago, I didn’t give a thought to its possible suffering. Silicon is silicon. It cooled down and ended up in e-waste, case…
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🔒 The great AI schism. China’s offensive in the Global South
While the West gets bogged down in debates over algorithm safety and a compliance thicket, Beijing is quietly delivering turnkey computing infrastructure to Asia, Africa and Latin America. For European tech companies…
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🔒 AI Act in stages. Deadlines pushed back, but the regulations remain
For months on end, August 2 loomed over companies as a hard deadline: the day after which using AI was set to become much more formalized. The European Union has just let…
🔒 Magnifica Humanitas – Rerum Novarum 4.0?
The Bishop of Rome is the spiritual leader of a community of nearly 1.3 billion members, so the Pope’s voice on the development of artificial intelligence carries far more weight than even…
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🔒 Pick a face, choose a voice
Imagine a Monday morning a few years from now. I get up, I don’t shave (as usual), but before I head out, I open an app and set my public profile to…
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🔒 Artificial intelligence has identified the technologies of the future, including itself.
The fourteenth edition of the WEF report on breakthrough technologies is the first to be co-authored by an algorithm. It’s also the first to treat AI not as a topic for discussion,…
