It’s a familiar feeling: You start a text message, and your phone’s auto-complete function suggests several choices for the next word, ranging from banal to hilarious. “I love…” you, or coffee? Or you’re finishing an email, and merely typing the word “Let” prompts your app to suggest “Let me know if you have any questions” […] … learn more→
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With AI finishing your sentences, what will happen to your unique voice on the page?
Detecting AI-generated images: the C2PA metadata proposal
Just a few years ago, we were amused by the completely fanciful photos generated by AI, but today it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish the real from the fake with the naked eye. One idea could be to tag AI-generated photos. This solution could be effective, but it still has many limitations. In 2024, deepfake […] … learn more→
AI and work: an expert assesses how far this revolution still has to run
Every week brings fresh claims about AI transforming the workplace. A CEO declares a revolution. A think piece predicts millions of jobs vanishing overnight. The noise is relentless. But strip away the hype and there is a simpler question. In developed economies, what has AI actually changed about work so far? The answer turns out to be […] … learn more→
Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?
In graduate school, my experimental archaeology professor told a student to create a door socket – the hole in a door frame that a bolt slides into – in a slab of sandstone by pecking at it with a rounded stone. After a couple of weeks, the student presented his results to the class. “I […] … learn more→
Colleges face a choice: Try to shape AI’s impact on learning, or be redefined by it
What happens to a college education when a chatbot can draft an essay, summarize a reading and generate computer code in seconds? The arrival of artificial intelligence in college classrooms has been swift and, for many schools, disorienting. As professors of economics and business management and biology at liberal arts colleges, we are confronting a question that […] … learn more→
Humanoid home robots are on the market – but do we really want them?
Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home”. Standing 168 centimetres tall and weighing in at 30 kilograms, the US$20,000 Neo bot promises to automate common household chores such as folding laundry and loading the dishwasher. Neo has a built-in artificial intelligence (AI) system, […] … learn more→
The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself
Public debate about artificial intelligence in higher education has largely orbited a familiar worry: cheating. Will students use chatbots to write essays? Can instructors tell? Should universities ban the tech? Embrace it? These concerns are understandable. But focusing so much on cheating misses the larger transformation already underway, one that extends far beyond student misconduct and […] … learn more→
A social network for AI: signs of the emergence of an artificial society, or very human manipulations?
Since its launch in late January 2026, Moltbook has seen AI agents found religions, create subcultures, and launch markets for “digital drugs.” A spectacular experiment, but one in which some of the protagonists are actually infiltrated humans. A new social network called Moltbook has been launched for artificial intelligence, aiming to allow machines to exchange […] … learn more→
Robots that listen, watch, and respond: the new frontier of collaboration
The way we communicate with machines can make work more efficient or more exhausting. In today’s factories, the key is for technology to learn to understand us so that collaboration between people and robots becomes a reality. The real challenge is not just producing faster, but doing so in a more human way. Although the […] … learn more→
Academics’ uses of GenAI – what is appropriate … and what is not?
Although universities remain keen to tackle inappropriate uses of generative AI (GenAI) by students, it is becoming increasingly clear that we need to talk much more openly about academics’ (mis)use of these technologies. Many Research Whisperer readers might have begun to hear stories of GenAI being used to write academic papers and research proposals, to analyse […] … learn more→
