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A new report is raising serious questions about children and artificial intelligence. Kids are adopting AI tools at roughly three times the rate of adults, and researchers say the infrastructure around safety, literacy, and oversight simply hasn't kept pace. That gap between adoption and readiness is where the real risk lives.
Shifting gears, a tool many dismissed as a generator of visual noise is finding serious purpose. Midjourney, long associated with AI-generated imagery of questionable value, is now being explored in medical research contexts, where its ability to synthesize and visualize complex data may prove genuinely useful. It's a reminder that the line between gimmick and instrument often just depends on who's holding it.
And a Harvard-backed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a fascinating window into why people overshare online. Researchers found that disclosing information about yourself activates the same reward pathways as food or money. In other words, talking about yourself feels good at a neurological level, which tells us something important about how social platforms are designed, and why they work.
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