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Researchers tortured robots to test the limits of human empathy
A brief history of people bullying robots. In 2015, a jovial three-foot-tall robot with pool noodles for arms set out on what seemed like a simple mission. Using the kindness of strangers, this machine, called “hitchBOT” would spend months hitchhiking across the continental United States. It made it...
popsci.com - 30+ days ago

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Researchers Reveal Startling Psychology Behind How AI Biases Affect Humans
AI systems can magnify even the smallest biases, increasing biased beliefs in humans, according to new research published in Nature Human Behavior.In...
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Key Brain Gateway to Conscious Perception Identified
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Humans lived with giant sloths, mastodons in the Americas, scientists say
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books
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
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'Magnetic tweezers': Making robotic surgery safer and more precise with a human touch
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China’s robotics start-ups emerge as new venture-capital darlings
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Why 'rippling effects' of wildfires will have lasting impact on LA's Latino community
The wildfires that ravaged much of Los Angeles County have disproportionately impacted Latino workers and communities and are likely to have lasting effects as the region recovers, researchers say. The county’s Latinos are vulnerable on multiple fronts, according to a report compiled by the Latino...
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Humans will soon be able to mine on the Moon. But should we? 4 questions to consider
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Bill Gates Says Humans Won't Be Needed for 'Most Things' in the AI Age
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