AI is more persuasive than a human in a debate, study finds
Washington Post, 19 May 2025
When provided basic demographic information on their opponents, AI chatbots adapted their arguments and became more persuasive than humans in online debates.
Fact check: How trustworthy are AI fact checks?
Yahoo!, 17 May 2025
The use of AI chatbots for fact-checking is on the rise. However, Grok's unsolicited claims about "white genocide" show that the responses of Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI and other chatbots are not always reliable.
University calls for tighter measures to control the rise of AI deep fakes
Cherwell, 14 May 2025
A new study from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) has found a sharp rise in the number of AI tools used to generate deep fake images of identifiable people, primarily targeting women.
Agatha Christie, Who Died in 1976, Will See You in Class
New York Times, 08 May 2025
An avatar of the long-dead British novelist is “teaching” an online writing course. But do we want to learn from a digital prosthetic built by artificial intelligence?
Concerns raised over AI trained on 57 million NHS medical records
New Scientist, 07 May 2025
The makers of an AI model called Foresight say it could help predict disease or hospitalisation rates, but others have expressed concern about the fact it is trained on millions of health records.
Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records
Nature, 06 May 2025
Researchers fed an artificial-intelligence model called Foresight with anonymized data from a huge swathe of patients in England’s National Health Service.
Mark Zuckerberg made us lonelier. Now he wants us to be friends with AI
Daily Telegraph, 07 May 2025
Social media leaving you feeling more isolated? The Facebook founder thinks chatbots can help.
Why experts say AI companions aren’t safe for teens — yet
Mashable, 04 May 2025
Youth mental health and safety experts are most worried about these AI companion features.
Oxford University uncovers ‘dramatic rise’ in deepfakes
Oxford Mail, 07 May 2025
The lead author of a new Oxford University says there is an 'urgent need' for more controls to tackle the rise of deepfakes.
Oxford university calls for tighter controls to tackle rise in deepfakes
The Times, 07 May 2025
Easy-to-use open source software is to blame for the explosion in programs primarily used to create explicit images of women, researchers suggest
Where Chinese Or American Tech Is Used In Cloud Data Storage
Forbes, 17 April 2025
Article highlights how Cloud computing has changed the status of network hardware like servers and data storage from a common asset of organizations or companies to a type of infrastructure, referencing OII research.
13 ways gaming impacts health and wellbeing
BBC News, 30 April 2025
Prof. Andrew Przybylski discusses the ways that gaming positively and negatively influences individual wellbeing on BBC The World Tonight, starting at 24:28.