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When AI Kills Someone, Who Goes to Jail?

This isn’t a question of “if.” It’s a question of “when” – and “who pays.” Elaine Herzberg is already dead.

Post-Transformer Architectures—What Comes After Attention?

In 2017, a paper with an audacious title changed everything: “Attention Is All You Need.” The authors from Google proposed the transformer architecture—a neural network design that relied purely on attention mechanisms, abandoning the recurrent structures that had dominated sequence modeling for decades. The transformer became the foundation for GPT, BERT, Claude, Gemini, and virtually every major language model.

AI Therapy Bots Are Better Than Humans—Should We Be Worried?

The data arrived in October 2024: AI therapy chatbots achieved better outcomes than human therapists in a randomized controlled trial. Not by a little. By margins that would be career-defining for a pharmaceutical intervention. The study, conducted across three university counseling centers, compared outcomes for students receiving either traditional therapy, AI-augmented therapy, or pure AI therapy via chatbot.