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WEIRD-est People in the World My recent research suggests the how do we use it question has a much more practical punch than you might think. We who use AI and other tech marvels of the last 50 years have been described by some as WEIRD — an acronym for Wealthy, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratized. That pretty much sums up Western society, including most English speakers and allies such as the EU, Japan, Australia, and others. According to Joseph Henrich, author of “The Weirdest People in the World,” an earlier tech revolution that began around 1500 CE changed our brains and made us much more likely to invent things like capitalism and modern democracy, but also internal combustion engines, nuclear reactions, and space telescopes, and all that go with them. We’re only talking about the last 500 years, which means that changes in our brains are not the result of evolution or genetics. Rather, these are changes such as the increased size of the  corpus callosum , the cer...

  IMAGE SOURCE, The US special counsel investigating Donald Trump obtained a secret search warrant for the ex-president's Twitter data in January, unsealed records show. Jack Smith requested "data and records" relating to Mr Trump's account which may have included unpublished posts. After initially resisting the warrant, Twitter eventually complied, but missed a court-ordered deadline by three days. The delay resulted in the company being handed a $350,000 (£275,000) fine for contempt of court. The existence of the search warrant and the legal fight over it was revealed in court documents unsealed on Wednesday. According to the unsealed ruling, which still includes some redactions, Twitter's lawyers did not object to the warrant itself, but disputed the nondisclosure order which kept it secret. The company, now known as X under the ownership of Elon Musk, argued that it should be allowed to notify customers whose accounts are subject to search warrants. X handed o...

  Share IMAGE SOURCE In  a blog post  the firm stressed that audio, video and chats were not used for AI without consent. The video-calling app acted after users noticed changes to the firm's terms of service in March which they worried enabled AI training. The firm said it made the changes to be more transparent. Zoom launched new AI-powered features in June, one of which lets clients summarise meetings without having to record an entire session. The features were offered as a free trial. But some experts warned the original wording of the terms of service could have allowed Zoom to access more user data than needed, including from customer calls. Talking to the BBC, before the terms of service were updated, data protection specialist Robert Bateman said: "The terms appeared to give the service provider a lot of freedom to use data generated by its users for many different purposes." He said that while there was a question mark over the risks that could arise, "alar...