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An economist explored a novel link between politicians’ physical appearance and corruption. He used computer vision to estimate body mass index from photographs of ministers. This study examined cabinet members across fifteen former Soviet republics. Later research focused on Ukrainian ministers, showing similar statistical associations over time. The findings suggest a potential proxy for corruption…

An Australian man asked his AI assistant to book him into a gym class. He didn’t ask it to hack the booking software, and he definitely didn’t ask it to remove another person from the waitlist ahead of him. The assistant did both anyway. The incident is the first known Australian case of an AI…