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Jim Endersby recalls how maths teachers responded to the arrival of cheap pocket calculators in the 1970s and likens it to current fears of AI use by university studentsI agree with Prof Andrew Moran and Dr Ben Wilkinson (Letters, 2 March) that cheap and easy‑to‑use AI tools create problems for universities, but the reactions of many academics to these new developments remind me of the way some people responded to the arrival of cheap pocket calculators in the 1970s.Reports of t

Appointment advice | Certain death | Taxing billionaires | Working-class doctors | Perfectly fried chips | AI paybackThanks for the advice on making the most of your doctor’s appointment (Don’t be afraid to cry – or to interrupt: doctors’ tips for making the most of your medical appointment, 2 March). Will you now publish a guide to making a doctor’s appointment?
Patrick Sheehy
Blackheath, London• “People who drink tea may have a lower risk of stroke

Measures issued by Joe Biden were swiftly repealed, leaving employees vulnerable to downgraded jobsDonald Trump’s rollback of basic guardrails for artificial intelligence leaves US workers “at real risk”, labor experts have warned.Protections introduced under Joe Biden to ensure the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of AI were swiftly repealed by the Trump administration – as top executives outlined sweeping plans to overhaul the labor force. Continue readi

Authors were asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian writers, literary agents, and the industry’s peak body have expressed their concerned after Black Inc Books asked its authors to consent to their work being used to train artificial intelligence.The Melbourne publisher, which produces The Quarterly Essay as well as fiction and no

Shez Partovi, chief innovation officer at Philips, is excited about the benefits of new technology for patients and cliniciansTwo decades ago, Shez Partovi was working as a neuroradiologist at the US private hospital chain Dignity Health in Arizona, and remembers listening to a lecture by a nun between seeing his VIP patients from Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Sister Margaret was talking about children with diabetes on Native American reservations just 50 miles from the private hospital, who had litt

With Trump’s tariffs and DeepSeek’s AI tech in the news, China waits to see how the Communist party plans to revitalise a stagnating economyAs thousands of delegates from across China arrive in Beijing this week to participate in the annual parliamentary session, there is a barely perceptible shift in the mood in the capital. Though few ordinary Chinese pay much attention to goings-on inside the Great Hall of the People, the imposing 1950s modernist building that flanks the western e

‘Insight’ labeled the argument ‘center-left’ and created a reply insisting AI will make storytelling more democraticBeneath a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece about the dangers of artificial intelligence, there is now an AI-generated response about how AI will make storytelling more democratic.“Some in the film world have met the arrival of generative AI tools with open arms. We and others see it as something deeply troubling on the horizon,” the co-dire