A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.

What bots are really doing in the classroom.

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How Vera Rubin Telescope Scientists Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

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Palantir’s Collection of Disease Data at C.D.C. Stirs Privacy Concerns

U.S. and state officials say the consolidation of the public health agency’s vast trove of information could expose patients and will delay analysis of long-term trends.

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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies.

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The Surveillance Tools That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda.

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General Motors Is Banned From Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years

An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission determined that consumers had not been aware that the automaker was providing their driving information to data brokers.

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Can You Turn Off Google and Meta’s A.I. Tools? Sometimes, and Here’s How.

Google, Microsoft and Meta are shoving A.I. chatbots into our faces. Sometimes, there’s a way out.

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