A space rock the size of a big stadium will pass closer to Earth than some of our own satellites on the evening of April 13, 2029, which happens to be Friday the 13th. avoid colliding with it. Don’t touch it. Simply move through the narrow shell of space that we often consider to be our private neighborhood, silently and incredibly quickly. People with clear skies in Europe, Africa, and some parts of Asia will be able to see it moving across the sky with their unaided eyes for a few hours. With an asteroid this size, that has never…
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The King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh doesn’t seem like the birthplace of international tech regulations. Footsteps are absorbed by the thick carpets. Besides the translation headsets are half-finished coffee cups. Attendees lean forward and pay close attention as presenters go over a topic that was previously thought to be solely Californian: the proper conduct of artificial intelligence. Silicon Valley is not the source of this conversation. In collaboration with the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority has started to develop an ethics charter that goes beyond governing AI in the…
A panel of university presidents convened in one of Abu Dhabi’s glass-and-marble conference spaces last January to discuss whether or not artificial intelligence should take the place of their faculty. The topic of discussion at the event, “Machines Can Think 2026,” was real. The president of Khalifa University, the provost of NYU Abu Dhabi, and the provost of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence—all three institutions operating within the same policy environment—all come to remarkably different conclusions about what AI should actually do in a classroom. AI was already being used by Khalifa University to create course-specific tutoring agents…
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