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Search for perfection | Clean living | Thames Water’s woes | Tory donors“One AI image depicted a person holding a handbag, smoking a cigar, with a shock of blond hair standing on end” (Boris Thatchill? Tories turn to AI to find their perfect leader, print edition, 1 April). Sounds like an anti-Marx brother.
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Peterborough• The Tory composite leader AI plan made for a good April Fools’ Day spoof, but it is not a new idea. In the 1990s, Norman Tebbit declared t

Company behind app says no personal information is collected but experts warn of ‘how easily’ data can be hackedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastYudara Kularathne came up with the idea for an AI-driven app when a friend was worried about a bump on their penis.Kularathne was then a consultant physician in Singapore in 2019, but he saw the potential for an app that could instantly identify a suspected sexually transmitted infection from a photo o

Senate committee queries new regulations that mean decisions normally made by ministers and officials are now automatedGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe federal government’s increasing use of computers to make decisions is raising alarm – including from its own ranks – with a bipartisan committee warning automation could jeopardise important safeguards that human discretion provides.Urging the government to heed the findings of the rob