AI in Society

AI in Society encompasses the widespread effects of artificial intelligence systems on everyday life, public institutions, labor markets and civic infrastructure. Truncated covers policy debates, ethics research, socioeconomic impacts, labor shifts and regulatory developments.

Yesterday · Tue 10 Nov

A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure

AI-generated summary Google DeepMind researchers used a new AI framework called AlphaProof Code to mathematically prove cryptographic guarantees of the Signal protocol. Signal chief technology officer Ehren Kret says verifying the implementation gives greater confidence in the code privacy guarantees.

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Monday 9 November

Institutional vs personal AI

AI-generated summary William Gibson's novels Agency and the Jackpot books explore two distinct models of artificial intelligence that distribute power in different ways. The author compares institutional systems that extend existing authority with personal artificial intelligence agents that can generate new individual agency.

Data centers need power—lower-income rural residents pay the price

AI-generated summary As the engines of artificial intelligence, large data centers can consume as much power as medium-sized cities, straining grids and prompting expensive upgrades to U.S. energy infrastructure. New research shows that data centers paid only 38 percent of the infrastructure costs linked to their growth, leaving residents, and especially lower-income and rural households, to shoulder the remaining 62 percent.