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Staying in the Driver’s Seat: Designing Better Human Oversight for AI

New research explores how deliberately imperfect outputs may help keep human reviewers vigilant. Listen to this article: Modern AI systems increasingly present us with products that appear finished: complete slide decks with images, polished reports and emails, and even full web apps coded entirely by the AI. We therefore move into the role of the […]

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The Dual-Geography of AI’s Water Footprint

A new Harvard analysis mapped where data-center water actually goes. Listen to this article: Recent social media posts have joked that using an LLM is a bit like turning on a hose, draining a bottle of water, or flushing the toilet. The idea being that every time an LLM answers a prompt, it heats up […]

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Who Counts as Your AI Competition?

A field experiment provides evidence that AI investment plans focus on the rivals next door. Listen to this article: We may be mistaking AI momentum for inevitability. AI capabilities seem to be advancing faster than ever, but technologies don’t diffuse automatically. They spread through thousands of individual decisions made by firms that often have an […]

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