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Do you use your face to unlock your phone, or speed through airport security? As #biometrics companies move into more and more spaces, where else would you use this #technology? The trade off seems simple: you scan your face, you get a frictionless future. But is it really? Join MIT Technology Review's features and investigations team for this special LinkedIn Live to understand both how we got here and what we have (been) signed up for.

OpenAI is once again lifting the lid (just a crack) on its safety-testing processes.

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Prison systems are using VR simulators to provide incarcerated people with more lifelike instruction. But is it working? https://trib.al/MNG2FFI

Who’s to blame for climate change? Well, it’s surprisingly complicated. Breaking things down by country, China is far and away the single biggest polluter today, a distinction it has held since 2006. It currently emits roughly twice as much greenhouse gas as any other nation. But considering a country’s current emissions doesn’t give the whole picture of its climate responsibility. Carbon dioxide is stable in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. That means greenhouse gases from the first coal power plant, which opened in the late 19th century, are still having a warming effect on the planet today. Adding up each country’s emissions over the course of its history reveals that the US has the greatest historical contribution—the country is responsible for about 24% of all the climate pollution released into the atmosphere as of 2023. While it’s the biggest polluter today, China comes in second in terms of historical emissions, at 14%. Read this story to better understand why assigning blame is so challenging and gain some perspective about the world’s biggest polluters:?https://lnkd.in/eCVEXQjM

Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken two-hour interview. A friendly voice guides you through a conversation that ranges from your childhood, your formative memories, and your career to your thoughts on immigration policy. Not long after, a virtual replica of you is able to embody your values and preferences with stunning accuracy. That’s now possible, according to a new paper from a team including researchers from Stanford and Google DeepMind. “If you can have a bunch of small ‘yous’ running around and actually making the decisions that you would have made—that, I think, is ultimately the future,” says Joon Sung Park, who led the research team.

TODAY: Facial verification tech promises a frictionless future. But at what cost? Join MIT Technology Review for a special LinkedIn Live to understand the rise of biometrics technology and what we have (been) signed up for. Register for free: https://lnkd.in/epfEtBka

If you're an artist, there's little you can do if your work has been scraped into a data set and used in an AI model that is already out there. You can, however, take steps to prevent your work from being used in the future. Here are four ways to fight back against tech companies that use your work to train their AI systems without your consent: https://trib.al/4ZUewgL

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