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How to… delete your 23andMe data

Beyond the laboratories that process the saliva samples, the company does not share customer information with anyone else unless the user has given...

Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake

And when systems can control multiple information sources simultaneously, potential for harm explodes. For example, an agent with access to both private...

Research Against the Machine – Communications of the ACM

Nowadays, we all more or less live in the same worldwide, globalized, extractivist, and productivist system. Let us call this system the Machine,...

Voyager’s slingshot maneuvers

This post started out as a thread on X. Here I’ve edited it into a blog post. The image below and the fact...

The Download: the dangers of AI agents, and ChatGPT’s effects on our wellbeing

—Margaret Mitchell, Avijit Ghosh, Sasha Luccioni, Giada Pistilli all work for Hugging Face, an open source AI company. AI agents have...

Hand calculating exp(x)

The previous post mentioned that Martin Gardner announced that Ramanujan’s conjecture that exp(π√163) in an integer had been proven. This was an April...

The elephant in the room for energy tech? Uncertainty.

This year, though, there was an elephant in the room, and it’s the current state of the US federal government. Or maybe...

Roundtables: AI Chatbots Have Joined the Chat

Recorded on March 20, 2025 AI Chatbots Have Joined the Chat Speakers: Rachel Courtland, commissioning editor, Rhiannon Williams, news reporter, and Eileen Guo, features &...

Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier”

The Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than Florida, a wall of ice that reaches nearly 4,000 feet above the bedrock of West...

Autopsies can reveal intimate health details. Should they be kept private?

This is where things get really complicated. Ethically speaking, we should consider the wishes of the deceased. Would that person have wanted to...

OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional wellbeing

The researchers found some intriguing differences between how men and women respond to using ChatGPT. After using the chatbot for four weeks, female...

The Download: Saving the “doomsday glacier,” and Europe’s hopes for its rockets

The Thwaites glacier is a fortress larger than Florida, a wall of ice that reaches nearly 4,000 feet above the bedrock of...

Europe is finally getting serious about commercial rockets

“I expect four or five companies to get to the point of launching, and then over a period of years reliability and launch...

Interior of a conic

What is the interior of a circle? Obvious. What is the interior of a parabola? Not quite as obvious. What is the interior of a...
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