Category: Blog
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Reading Time: 13 minutes – In recent years, AI’s demand for high-quality data has surged, leading to a looming shortage. Synthetic data, generated by AI itself, has emerged as a viable solution, enabling models to learn and adapt without relying on real-world inputs. While beneficial, this shift raises concerns about originality and ethical implications in…
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Reading Time: 16 minutes – In Malawi, AI-augmented fetal monitoring is revolutionizing maternal healthcare by drastically reducing stillbirths and neonatal deaths. At the Area 25 Health Centre, the introduction of this technology has improved outcomes significantly, showcasing the power of ethical innovation in underserved regions. The initiative exemplifies how collaboration can enhance lives and transform…
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Reading Time: 5 minutes – The post discusses various applications of AI, including “Overwatch,” a law enforcement tool employing realistic AI personas for surveillance, and “Unfinished Legacies,” which enables deceased overdose victims to share their stories via AI recreations. It also highlights AI’s role in UK urban planning with the ‘Extract’ tool, and SplxAI’s focus…
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Reading Time: 18 minutes – China’s Social Credit System, evolving as of 2025, uses AI to assign scores based on citizens’ behaviors, rewarding positive actions while penalizing negative ones. This system aims to cultivate trust and social order but raises concerns about privacy, conformity, and the ethics of machine-driven morality across various societal sectors.
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Reading Time: 10 minutes – The Mechanical Turk, an 18th-century automaton chess player, sparked debates about intelligence and illusion, paralleling today’s AI technologies like Amazon’s MTurk, highlighting the ongoing relationship between human creativity and machine performance in defining intelligence.
