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Defining A Better AI Future For All
Artificial intelligence is everywhere, but it also needs to be ethical. For some, the path towards ethical AI starts with how we talk about it.
TechTalks: Why we should introduce speed bumps in our use of technology
Having the discipline to manage one’s screen time is a boring, but important, endeavour. Prof Lim Sun Sun writes for the Straits Times in a monthly column on technology and society.
Tech Talk: Online safety and social media liability: Has the tide turned?
Tech companies might have to be responsible for their algorithmic design and commercial decisions after landmark ruling on British teen’s death.
The Big Read: Is society becoming less informed as social media platforms shun hard news?
In what has been dubbed as the “TikTokification” of social media, platforms are for example deprioritising news and more serious content on users’ feeds, which observers say will have ramifications for the news media and the proper functioning of society.
I watched a metaverse concert and this is what it was like
There was a “DJ” on a large, illuminated stage playing a remix of Coldplay’s hit A Sky Full of Stars, and there were dozens of “people” dancing to the beat.
Digital tools may be the key to longer life
1 in 2 are confident they will be able to live to 100
What AI still can’t do
TikTok, the latest platform for walking the virtual ground
Experts ST spoke to say that the embrace of TikTok by political leaders is another sign that more of them are sharpening their focus on social media.
Singapore's battle against disinformation and foreign influence bids
Head of HASS, Prof Lim Sun Sun, shares her views on the use of third-party advocates and commentators in this topic.
The Big Read: Watch out Facebook (and the world), as pandemic-fuelled TikTok boom unleashes the good, bad and ugly
Social media experts told TODAY that while TikTok was already gaining traction when it launched internationally in 2017, it was boredom and isolation at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic that boosted the take-up rate of the Chinese mobile app around the world.