accountability

AI Doomsday Fears Let Companies Dodge Accountability, Professor Says

Fixation on futuristic AI catastrophe scenarios is allowing companies to evade accountability for the very real harms their technology is already causing, a professor says.In an essay published this week, Tobias Osborne, a professor of theoretical physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover and a cofounder of the scientific communication firm Innovailia,…

Trump Moves Forward With Student-Loan, Accountability Overhaul

How do you make sure you can afford the student debt you’re taking on?It’s a complicated question that President Donald Trump’s Education Department spent a week hashing out. On Friday, the department concluded negotiations and reached consensus on its proposal to strengthen accountability in student-loan borrowing, including revising the gainful…