Tag: Research
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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There Is Something We Have to Do Right Now About A.I.
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Who Gets to Decide A.I.’s Moral Code?
A small number of people are shaping what chatbots value. Those choices are already influencing how people think.
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Two Centuries On, Smithsonian Connects Jefferson’s Hair to Hemings’s Children
A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.
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Has A.I. Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds?
This isn’t the first time great scientific minds have warned of humanity’s destruction.