Critical thinking skills prove effective in discerning truth from conspiracy theories
A new experimental study has found that fostering critical thinking can be an effective method to reduce people's tendency to ...
Saudi Arabia spearheads Arab scramble for alternative to Trump's Gaza plan
Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies were aghast at Trump's plan to "clean out" Palestinians from Gaza and resettle most of them in Jordan and Egypt, an idea immediately rejected by Cairo and Amman and ...
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China rehearsing forced unification campaign around Taiwan: US Pacific commander
The top American officer in the Indo-Pacific region Admiral Samuel Paparo says Beijing is not simply conducting regular training exercises around Taiwan, but is rehearsing a military campaign to force ...
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Using AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills
A survey of workers who used generative AI to complete tasks found that they used critical thinking less when they trusted ...
Friday essay: some tech leaders think AI could outsmart us and wipe out humanity. I’m a professor of AI – and I’m not worried
In December 2024, Geoff Hinton, who is often called the “godfather of AI” and who had just won the Nobel Prize in Physics, ...
Russia’s war on Ukraine at critical moment as Trump and Putin push to end conflict
Alarms were raised in Kyiv and across Europe after US President Donald Trump, pushing to end the war in Ukraine, struck a conciliatory tone toward Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin following a phone ...