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Generative AI carries serious online risks

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INTERNATIONAL

These models are fed huge datasets of media content and trained to generate new content following a short thematic prompt. The most hyped -- and feared -- models include OpenAI’s…

GenAI promises new risks and gains on cybersecurity

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INT

Text, images, videos, and audio created by GenAI AI can be used to deceive people into turning over credentials, believing false information and bypassing authentication controls…

GenAI will transform workplace tasks across industries

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INT

Using machine learning algorithms, these tools leverage vast online datasets to create new and unique outputs, such as images, text, videos or code, that appear to mimic human…

Weak economy prompts foreign outreach in Mongolia

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MONGOLIA

GDP growth has slowed from a peak of 17.5% in 2011 to around 7.0% last year. Foreign investment, which has driven growth, has fallen steeply and external conditions have weakened…

GPT-3 AI language tool calls for cautious optimism

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INT

It required arguably the single largest computational effort for a machine learning model to date, and is it capable of producing text at times indistinguishable from the work of…

COP21 will reach weak global climate agreement

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INTERNATIONAL

Climate change and the Paris accord.

AI's promise and pitfalls will affect key domains

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INT

AI promises to drive economic efficiencies across sectors, improve the delivery of critical services such as healthcare, democratise access to knowledge and skills, and tighten…

EU advances plan for strict crypto regulations

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EU

EU institutions and members must now agree on the final version and its technical provisions. On September 21, a leaked version of the text introducing MiCA raised concerns in the…

Post-Cotonou agreement will challenge African states

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AFRICA/EU

The treaty includes joint commitments to improving human rights and gender equality. Perhaps more notably, it also implicitly crystallises the EU’s commitment to implementation of…

Malicious uses of social media bots will rise

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INT

In particular, bots are used to increase the speed and scale of misinformation campaigns and foreign propaganda. They make attribution of such activities to specific actors…