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Tom Chivers

August 2024

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    Today in Focus
    Black Box: episode 6 – Shut it down? - podcast

    This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 21 March 2024.

    For decades, Eliezer Yudkowsky has been trying to warn the world about the dangers of AI. And now people are finally listening to him. But is it too late?
    Podcast41:33

May 2024

  • Johann Hari’s reporting has previously been called into question.

    Magic Pill by Johann Hari review – weighing in

    There is a useful book to be written about the rise of anti-obesity drugs such as Ozempic, but this flawed account is not it

March 2024

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    Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates
    Black Box: shut it down? – episode 7

    For decades, Eliezer Yudkowsky has been trying to warn the world about the dangers of AI. And now people are finally listening to him. But is it too late?
    Podcast41:16

April 2021

  • Question mark made out of lateral flow tests

    The obscure maths theorem that governs the reliability of Covid testing

    There’s been much debate about lateral flow tests – their accuracy depends on context and the theories of a 18th-century cleric

August 2019

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    Facial recognition… coming to a supermarket near you

    The technology is helping to combat crimes police no longer deal with, but its use raises concerns about civil liberties

June 2019

  • stills from gan-generated deepfake videos of marilyn monroe, albert einstein and the mona lisa

    What do we do about deepfake video?

    Deepfake – the ability of AI to fabricate apparently real footage of people – is a growing problem with implications for us all

December 2018

  • Ambulances outside A&amp;E at QMC, Nottingham. NHS, hospital, ambulance, hospital staff, casualty, emergency, medical, National Health Service, accident and emergency, paramedics, emergency services

    double quotation markDon’t blame an increase in drug scares among older people on the 1960s

    Tom Chivers
    More over-45s are arriving at hospital with drug-related mental health issues, but there’s a myriad of reasons why, says science writer Tom Chivers
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