Science & Technology
AI may be messing with our memories
A casual conversation with a friend led NYU neuroscientist Tim Requarth down an unsettling line of inquiry. His friend had made an AI video of himself scaling Mt. Rushmore, and a little while later, he felt the slightest bit of a memory of being at Mt. Rushmore — even though he had never been there. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Requarth about why our brains’ process for making memories seems to be vulnerable to generative AI.
In China, the future of transportation is already here
Self-driving cars and electric vehicles tend to dominate global headlines, but some of the most consequential innovations in transportation are happening in far humbler machines. In Shenzhen, China, driverless delivery vans, autonomous sanitation robots, surveillance drones and other experimental vehicles are already operating in public spaces, offering a view of how cities may function in the coming decades.
Nobel laureates sound the alarm over artificial superintelligence
Last week, several Nobel laureates and high-profile celebrities cautioned that the threat of artificial intelligence is real, particularly regarding what’s known as artificial superintelligence. Max Tegmark, head of The Future of Life Institute and a professor doing AI research at MIT, spoke to The World’s Host Marco Werman about why experts — including him — are calling for urgent action.
Europe wants to attract American scientists
In the wake of federal funding cuts that threaten scientists’ jobs in the US, programs have emerged across Europe to attract those worried American scientists. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from a university in southern France where incoming Americans are referred to as “scientific refugees.”