The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is ...

Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with international collaborators, have shown that people in ...

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How prediction machines have become infrastructure for the legitimacy of event outcomes, no matter how outlandish.

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Government social-media managers have transformed official feeds.

Despite the well-documented academic, cognitive, and social difficulties associated with persistent language disorders, predicting early-life language issues remains a significant challenge for ...

Should we use AI to pre-screen whether people can see a human therapist? And should we use AI to do initial intervention?

When people are framed as something less than fully human, public empathy and willingness to protect their rights shrink ...

Don't speak perfect Oxford English? You may face "shocking" levels of discrimination when using large language models, researchers have found. New customized AI models could be the answer. Whether ...

Reading Orwellian novels and watching Black Mirror used to be an entertaining form of escapism. But nowadays, these kinds of ...