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We can all see that AI is rapidly changing the world, and it's bringing with it a whole new set of safety and security issues. Fundamentally these are technical problems, but they raise enormous policy questions about how to manage the risks associated wi

Figure by Gemini. One of the many sites of conflict over AI use on the Internet is about the use of "agentic" Web browsers: those that incorporate AI features where the user can give the AI instructions and then let it interact with the site independently

A little under 10% of the US population suffers from asthma . The good news is we have highly effective treatments. The bad news is that despite these treatments being decades old, they're shockingly expensive in the US as the result of a really bad inter

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Over the past several years, quite a few jurisdictions have started to require age assurance for access to various forms of content and experiences. In most current cases, this amounts to a mandate on the service (PornHub, Facebook, etc.), but understanda