Chatbots may give students quick answers when they have questions, but they won’t help students form relationships that ...

Artificial Intelligence California's fire protection agency made an AI chatbot. It can’t answer one crucial question The bot fails at some basic questions about fires. Cal Fire says it is working on ...

Director of Special ProjectsRamsey Isler is director of special projects at CalMatters and The Markup. He focuses on strategy and tactics for optimizing the delivery of the newsroom’s work, including ...

Wisconsin uses a computer model to predict how likely middle school students are to graduate from high school on time.

Before February 2020, physical proximity was one of the most important factors in determining who got a new liver. The previous system divided the country into dozens of “donation service areas,” each ...

News With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can Laws Keep Up? States around the country are scrambling to respond to the dramatic rise in deepfakes, a result of little regulation and ...

Machine Learning We’re Not Living a “Predicted” Life: Student Perspectives on Wisconsin’s Dropout Algorithm Wisconsin took down its dropout predictions after a Markup investigation. Here’s what two ...

Split Screen cannot reverse-engineer Facebook’s recommendation algorithm, and none of our observations should be treated as causal claims that Facebook has targeted a specific piece of content at a ...

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Native Americans are far less likely than other racial groups to gain a spot on the national liver transplant list, despite having the highest rate of death from liver disease, according to an ...

In October 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that an AI-powered chatbot would help New York business owners navigate the government. Months later, that chatbot is telling businesses to ...