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The future of AI in healthcare depends not on how advanced our algorithms become, but on how wisely we use them. (Canva)
ALGORITHM

The ethical pulse of progress: AI’s promise and peril in healthcare

Bias in healthcare AI isn’t just a technical flaw; it’s an ethical hazard with real-world consequences for patient trust and equity

  • Vishal Barapatre
5 min read
Elon Musk. (File photo)
ALGORITHM

EDITORIAL | We must all reclaim our information space

A few powerful men control the dominant means of creating and sharing information in 2025

  • Editorial
2 min read
AI is not a side issue; it is an economic governance challenge that will determine who captures value, who holds power, and whose interests technology ultimately serves for decades to come. (Science Photo Library/ Sergi Laremenko)
AGI

The artificial intelligence endgame

Is (computer) science the new organised ‘religion’ re-colonising the world?

  • Sameena Amien
13 min read
Google AI Research Scientist Timnit Gebru speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
ABEBA BIRHANE

Timnit Gebru and the fight to make artificial intelligence work for Africa

As you read this, the future is being coded in Silicon Valley. The algorithms that will one day govern our lives are being built. But who is building them, and who are they being…

  • Simon Allison
12 min read