#RoyalInstitution #ChristmasLectures on #astrobiology this year - I like the sound of that https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/mar/14/life-must-extend-beyond-earth-leading-space-scientist-says #science #PublicUnderstanding

oh. #RIP #TimRadford, #ScienceWriter extraordinaire. He actually gave me a brief introduction to the job many years ago. I remember I couldn't get a word in edgewise. and he commissioned/edited a few stories I wrote for the grauniad. Back in the days of the ever-changing pullout sections dedicated to science / #technology.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/13/tim-radford-obituary #science #PublicUnderstanding #scienceJournalism

The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault | Margaret Sullivan

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/09/trump-president-democracy-threat-media-journalism?CMP=share_btn_tw

#TrumpVictoryRisk #MediaFault #DemocracyThreat #Journalism #PublicUnderstanding #MargaretSullivan #Politics #News

I need your best general-but-educated-audience definitions of #AI please!

I know it is a a phrase subject to definitional disagreements and covering fast-evolving applications (https://iai.tv/articles/ai-is-not-intelligent-auid-2519) and also the technology of text generators known as Large Language Models (LLMs), but if you had to define it with nuance for a lay audience who only ever hears the phrase 'artificial intelligence', what rhetorical magic do you use?

#ArtificialIntelligence #PublicUnderstanding #AcademicMastodon