Anjana Ahuja

FT SCIENCE COMMENTATOR

Robert F Kennedy Jr campaigns against childhood vaccine mandates at a rally in Albany, New York, May 14, 2019.
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The new Republican war on science

Robert F Kennedy Jr’s appointment is characteristic of Donald Trump’s hostility to expertise

As machines everywhere, particularly LLMs, are crafted to be more humanlike, we risk being duped at scale by companies restrained by few checks and balances.

Should we be fretting over AI’s feelings?

Companies are racing to build machines that are more intelligent and more like us

Researchers have used Denmark’s registry data, which contains a wealth of day-to-day information on education, salary, job, working hours, housing and doctor visits to develop the  life2vec algorithm.

Could an AI ‘death calculator’ actually be a good thing?

A new Danish algorithm exploits the fact that both language and life are sequences

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There is a scientific fraud epidemic – and we are ignoring the cure

Rooting out manipulation should not depend on dedicated amateurs who take personal legal risks for the greater good

A steel sculpture with the Chinese names of the 17 "rare earths" chemical elements, in the Baotou Rare Earth High-Tech Industrial Development Zone in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Even the periodic table must bow to the reality of war

Sanctions on Russia are changing the hunt for superheavy elements