AI: Artificial intelligence

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

When it comes to predicting the future, you might as well ask an astrologer as a rational expert

Looking at the technology through a different cultural lens casts its threat and promise in a new light

‘Data centres no longer need to be concentrated around Dublin’ but should be closer to sources of renewable energy, especially offshore wind

Technology has changed the way many of us consume information, from complex pieces of writing to short video clips

But that hegemony will end, perhaps soon. If you value good journalism and good design, give someone you love a newspaper subscription this Christmas

Universities are providing more programmes for disabled students - but learners say we need to do far more to promote greater inclusion in education

There is no incentive for students to admit to using AI and every incentive to cheat, while teachers have been woefully underprepared for a revolution likened to Gutenberg’s printing press

Marketing platform UnitMode aims to ‘supercharge consumer-powered climate innovation’

Friends of the Earth calls for ‘moratorium on new data centres and expansion of existing ones until robust legislative framework is in place’

Bank of America says we are in a period of rising risk and rising return

In conversation with US ambassador to Ireland in Dublin, Clegg said AI discussion had dwelled on ‘largely nonsensical fears’

Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one

Leaving Cert candidates must reference any use of AI tools or risk forfeiting their marks

Taking longer to answer a question can indicate deceptive behaviour, because it reflects the mental effort involved in crafting a misleading response

Unthinkable: Regulating generative AI is important in its own right, but it’s also a dummy run for the existential threat of artificial general intelligence. This will go beyond mimicking human intelligence to conquering it

Dr Muiris Houston: An untrammelled AI could lead to a significant risk to patients’ health

A person who thinks a book can be ‘edited’ by a piece of software is a person who simply doesn’t know what editing is

Radio: The Hard Shoulder host Kieran Cuddihy gives his guest’s talent for inflammatory opinions full rein – all while discussing his favourite books

Report highlights gaps in policies around aspects of artificial intelligence