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Mystery of giant ancient volcano beneath Pacific

Mystery of giant ancient volcano beneath Pacific

Plus! Warning AI risks more ‘Post Office-type IT scandals’

Tech and Science Daily | The Standard · Rachelle Abbott

January 16, 20246m 10s

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Show Notes

Scientists led by the University of Nevada Las Vegas have been investigating a vast dinosaur-era volcanic superstructure beneath the Pacific Ocean. Dr Dan McQuillan, an expert in the social impact of artificial intelligence from Goldsmiths University of London, on the devastating consequences of combining of human bureaucracy and ‘opaque’ AI. Birth of universe in sight through ‘oldest black hole’. 

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