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Research shows Alaska’s ice sheet is melting at ‘incredibly disturbing’ rate

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One of the largest areas of interconnected glaciers in North America is melting twice as fast as before 2010, a team of scientists reported Tuesday, calling it an “exceptionally troubling” sign that land ice could be disappearing even faster in many places than previously thought. The Juneau Ice Field, which stretches across the Coast Mountains … Read more

AI can ‘fake’ empathy but also encourage Nazism, disturbing research suggests

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A brain composed of wires

Computer scientists have discovered this artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and large language models (LLMs) can unintentionally breed Nazism, sexism and racism in their conversation partners. When asked to show empathy, these conversation agents do so with great regularity, even when the people using them are self-described Nazis. Furthermore, the chatbots did nothing to challenge the … Read more