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Utah K-12 Schools Can Now Apply for AI Gun Detection

By Giovanni Radtke, News Writer March 2, 2024

  The Utah State Board of Education has sent grant applications for artificial intelligence gun detection to K-12 schools throughout the state.  Rhett Larsen, Utah State Board of Education...

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Looking Toward an Election Year Through the Responsible AI Initiative

By Libbey Hanson, News Writer February 26, 2024

  As artificial intelligence technology advances daily, scientists and researchers have been looking into the risks and benefits AI would carry in this year’s upcoming election. While AI can...

Chong Oh poses for a photo in the Spencer Fox Eccles Business Building at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sep. 21, 2023. (Photo by Marco Lozzi | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Kahlert Initiative on Technology Teaches Students Digital Literacy

By Jamie Faux, News Writer September 28, 2023

  In the spring of 2020, the University of Utah launched the Kahlert Initiative on Technology — a scholarship program focused on preparing any “undergraduate student to be digitally literate...

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Why You Should Care About the SAG-AFTRA Strike

By Graham Jones, Arts Writer, News For U Producer August 1, 2023

  On May 2, 2023, the Writers Guild of America went on strike. The WGA is a labor union that was formed on April 6, 1933 (originally the Screenwriter’s Guild) to protect and represent writers...

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‘Mrs. Davis’ Is An Idiosyncratic Show About AI of Mythic Proportions

By Arlo Marler, Arts Writer June 27, 2023

  With the rise in so-called world-changing sci-fi-like developments in artificial intelligence, talk of how AI will affect the working class has increased insurmountably. From replacing artists...

Bringhurst: Facebook’s Metaverse Poses a Threat to Reality 

Bringhurst: Facebook’s ‘Metaverse’ Poses a Threat to Reality 

By Maggie Bringhurst, Opinion Writer December 2, 2021

  As a young person living in an era of rapid technological advancement, I’m always astounded by society’s progress. Screenless displays and self-driving cars no longer exist solely in science...

Beck and NASA collaborate to create an immersive visual album for Hyperspace (Courtesy Indigo Show)

Beck and NASA Bring ‘Hyperspace’ to Life with an Audiovisual Experience

By Kate Button, Arts Writer, Copy Editor August 23, 2020

  On Aug. 12, Beck released a new version of his 2019 album, “Hyperspace.” This new release features a visual component created in collaboration with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory....

David Sacharny, a PhD student in Computing Robotics, codes artificial intelligence software for robots on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017

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Will Artificial Intelligence Be the Last Human Invention?

By Connor Richards September 5, 2017

In Plato’s “Phaedrus,” Socrates tells the legend of King Thamus who is given the gift of writing from Theuth, the Egyptian god of knowledge. Writing, Theuth persuades, will act as a mass remedy for...

Are Robots Taking Over the World?

Are Robots Taking Over the World?

July 28, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Although artificial intelligence (AI) seems like a subject reserved for sci-fi movies, it is actually a rapidly developing field that could have serious ramifications...

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