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Online Records Could Expose Intimate Details and Personality Traits of Millions

March 12, 2013

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Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital behaviour, in this case Facebook Likes. Study raises important questions about personalised marketing and online privacy. (Credit: Graphic from mypersonality app, Cambridge Psychometrics Centre) Mar. 11, 2013 — Research shows that intimate personal attributes […]

Will machines kill mankind? Cambridge academics want to know

November 26, 2012

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Academics highlight threat of super-intelligent technology James Legge Monday, 26 November 2012 Academics at Cambridge University are pondering the risk to humanity from super-intelligent technology which could “threaten our own existence.” Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge, said: “In the case of artificial intelligence, it seems a reasonable prediction that some time […]

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