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I asked a psychologist what worries the people trying to make AI safer
By Becca Caddy published
A psychologist and AI risk advisor explains the real-world risks developers and users aren’t fully seeing.

Smarter people are better at League of Legends and Dota 2
By Duncan Geere published
Researchers have found a link between high levels of intelligence and the ability to perform well at Moba games.

People are pretty bad at spotting Photoshopped images
By Duncan Geere published
Psychologists have found that more than a third of fake images go undetected.

Your personality is your best defence against losing your job to a robot
By Duncan Geere published
Psychologists at the University of Houston are figuring out the impact of different personality traits when it comes to the changing nature of work

It's true: research proves you really do lose track of time when surfing the web
By Duncan Geere published
Psychologists have proved that people using Facebook or surfing the web suffer impaired time perception

Algorithm reads millions of posts on parenting sites in bid to understand online misinformation
By Duncan Geere published
Researchers at UCLA have designed a computer that can read posts on parenting websites in an attempt to figure out how false narratives spread online

It takes just a quarter of a second to figure out if someone is an android
By Duncan Geere published
The human brain takes less than a second to tell the difference between reality and fantasy, according to psychologists.

Using augmented reality glasses slows down your reaction times
By Duncan Geere published
Psychologists from the University of Central Florida have tested response times for people using Google Glass and similar headsets, and the results are concerning.
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