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The counterintuitive and sinewy motions of snakes, stingrays, and skydivers represent a strange kind of motion that is notoriously hard to simulate, animate, or anticipate. All three types of locomotion—through sand, sea, and air—represent movement that relies on neither wings nor limbs but rather subtle and sometimes sudden changes of a body’s geometry.Now researchers from Caltech and the Technical University of Berlin have created a crucial algorithm that can finally put such

Experts aim to draw up UK legislation to protect against misuse of artificial intelligence“We can’t let existential risks blind us to the challenges we face today,” says Gina Neff, a tech expert at the University of Cambridge and co-chair of a new TUC taskforce on artificial intelligence in the workplace. “Those challenges are real, and they’re faced by all of us.”Rishi Sunak is hosting a global AI safety summit in November, amid hair-raising concerns raised b

Exclusive: Information commissioner tells government it risks contempt of court over response to freedom of information requestsThe UK government risks contempt of court unless it improves its response to requests for transparency over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to vet welfare claims, the information commissioner has said.Over the past two years, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has increasingly deployed machine-learning algorithms to detect fraud and error in universal cr