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Demystify: Artificial intelligence has its uses, but it is the harms that should concern us. Photo: Flickr

Never mind the botlickers, ‘AI’ is just normal technology

We desire existential certainty in this world of complexity and amid our sense of powerlessness, but turning to the new oracles isn’t a solution

AI is not a side issue; it is an economic governance challenge that will determine who captures value, who holds power, and whose interests technology ultimately serves for decades to come. (Science Photo Library/ Sergi Laremenko)

AI Armageddon is coming. Why aren’t we panicking?

Artificial intelligence will replace most jobs and create few. The future is bleak – except for the rich

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

AI didn’t kill writing — we did

How AI writing tools, especially ChatGPT, are changing the rhythm, tone and even punctuation of our prose, one em dash at a time

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Saint AI, is it really the all-knowing oracle?

Artificial intelligence’s large language models are not the new saviour they are thought to be – they fail to love us equally

Companies must focus on reducing their carbon footprint and run their data centres on renewable energy. (Photo by Tom Lee/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)

Artificial intelligence costs the Earth

Companies must focus on reducing their carbon footprint and run their data centres on renewable energy

A city employee cleans the “Wall of the Righteous” (Mur des Justes) stamped with red hand graffiti outside the Shoah memorial in Paris, on May 14, 2024. The monument was vandalised overnight,  with the president of the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) denouncing the act as antisemitic. (Photo by Antonin UTZ / AFP)

UNESCO warns that AI technology risks spreading Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism

The organisation’s report highlighted instances where hackers had rigged chatbots to spread Nazi ideology

Graphic: John McCann

A strong South Africa Al plan could protect economy – and people

The technology has huge implications for the country and the world. Experts say if South Africa fails to prepare, it will be preparing to fail

Lawyer ‘dodges a bullet’ after relying on non-existent ChatGPT cases in court papers

The case shows the dangers associated with the irresponsible usage of AI

AI robot generated by a glowing particle and binary data.

‘Haunted’ ChatGPT cranks out gibberish for hours

ChatGPT was giving ‘peculiar’ responses, generating non-existent words, incomplete sentences and general gobbledygook

An open mindset towards continuous learning is essential says Ke Yu, Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg.

SA’s youth and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Adaptability is an essential strategy for success in a tech-driven world

Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images

Alarm around AI is not warranted

South African university students are using AI to help them understand work, not avoid it, according to research