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Considering the AI Hype and Just Regulation

Considering the AI Hype and Just Regulation

Ridoan Karim Ridoan is a Lecturer at the Department of Business Law & Taxation, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia. He has taught and researched in the fields of business and international trade law. When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, it provoked extreme reactions: “Oh my God! It’s

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What Will a Robot Make of Your Résumé?

What Will a Robot Make of Your Résumé?

Melika Soleimani, Massey University; Ali Intezari, The University of Queensland; David J Pauleen, Massey University, and Jim Arrowsmith, Massey University The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has begun, spreading to almost every facet of people’s professional and personal lives – including job recruitment. While artists fear copyright breaches or simply being

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When an Online ‘Joke’ Packs a Punch

When an Online ‘Joke’ Packs a Punch

Social media, as Mike Tyson famously said, “made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it”. Occasionally, though, someone learns the hard way that online disrespect can lead to offline consequences. When Spanish comedian Jaime Caravaca responded to a tweet from

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Why EV Manufacturing Is Exceeding Demand

Why EV Manufacturing Is Exceeding Demand

John Klar libertynation.com Car manufacturers make little, if any, money on EV sales. A dearth of charging stations discourages new buyers, who are also put off by high sticker prices. Sales of new electric vehicles have dropped off, as have used resale values. Manufacturers nevertheless proclaim these machines are

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The Biotech Bubble Is Bursting

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Computer Dependency

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve just returned to New Zealand after two months in Scotland, Paris and Serbia. In the mountain of mail awaiting me were further letters offering credit from the ASB, to settle the outstanding amount, namely 80 cents, re an account closed six years ago

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How Long Should Appliances Last?

Win Thandar Zaw PhD Candidate, Te Piringa-Faculty of Law, University of Waikato When a product or appliance fails, how often have you asked yourself whether it’s even worth fixing? Chances are, even if the item is repairable, the cost and inconvenience mean buying a new replacement can make more

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Why AI Is a Real Threat

Why AI Is a Real Threat

Damon Hayhow Damon is the founder of the National Recomposition Institute and creator and founder of the Recomposer software system. He was also formerly the Australian Ambassador to the International Society of Sports Nutrition, president of the World Powerlifting Congress Australia and an Australian Champion in Bodybuilding and Powerlifting. libertyitch.

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Health System Revamp for Disease Surveillance Delayed

Health System Revamp for Disease Surveillance Delayed

dailytelegraph.co.nz AUTHORITIES HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE URGENT OVERHAUL OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM, AIMED AT ENHANCING THE DETECTION AND CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IS BEHIND SCHEDULE. The improved surveillance system, initially set to be in place by next month, now awaits a final independent report due in September, according

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Surviving Winter without Your Gasoline Car

Surviving Winter without Your Gasoline Car

Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org January of this year brought near-zero temperatures

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Onward to an AI Dystopia

Onward to an AI Dystopia

Damon Hayhow Damon is the founder of the National Recomposition Institute and creator and founder of the Recomposer software system. He was also formerly the Australian Ambassador to the International Society of Sports Nutrition, president of the World Powerlifting Congress Australia and an Australian Champion in Bodybuilding and Powerlifting. libertyitch.

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Who Did This to a Generation?

It’s not for nothing that social media has been dubbed “the Big Tobacco of the 21st century”. Like Philip Morris and Rothmans in the ’50s and ’60s, companies like Meta have done their internal research and know how harmful their products are. Especially to teens. Yet that’s just

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What Is Wrong With Tesla?

What Is Wrong With Tesla?

Francesco Biondi Associate Professor, Human Systems Labs, University of Windsor Tesla is yet again undergoing scrutiny from federal regulators in the United States. The issue at hand now is whether the automotive company did enough in response to the 2023 recalls by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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Should You Share Family Snaps Online?

Should You Share Family Snaps Online?

An author acquaintance of mine recently put out a call for help: she’d been increasingly subject to decidedly creepy inquiries from ‘fans’. Put broadly, these covered everything from questions about her sex life to requests for photos of her young children. At the time, we thought she might have

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Yes, Your Child Is Being Targeted by Online Predators

Kimberly Ells Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family. Follow her at Invincible Family Substack. mercatornet.com For many parents, the day they find out their child is being approached, targeted, educated, and manipulated by strangers on his or her digital devices is the day they finally take

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