Google’s days of monopolising the web may be numbered
Also this week: Michael Gove’s delight at Spectator editorship, and the BBC’s Strictly bullying claims.
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Is AI a danger to humanity or our salvation?
The founders of AI are divided over what’s next.
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The internet is unusable now
Pop-ups, farmed content and sponsored posts have ruined a web that once told us whatever we needed to know.
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“You can Google how to hack a smart home hub”
MPs were told that connected home devices are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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Do mapping apps exacerbate prejudice?
GIS navigation tools have come to dictate our mobility – but their suggested routes are not free from bias.
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The dangerous fallacy of sentient AI
Ignore the Silicon Valley messiahs. They only expose how little most of us know about the technology and its ethics.
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How Google makes you know less but think you know more
Experiments have found that constant googling is leading people to mistake the internet’s knowledge as their own.
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It’s the tech giants, not socialist politicians, who are coming for our liberty
As algorithms take over our lives, the issue of Big Tech censorship can no longer be dismissed as a fringe…
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Will Brexit make us more vulnerable to AI decision-making?
The government is proposing to remove EU-era regulatory protections that enable people to challenge the decisions algorithms make about them.
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