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Human Reviewers Can’t Keep Up With Police Bodycam Videos. AI Now Gets the Job
"Who will watch the watchmen?" In the age of police body cameras, the answer may be "artificial intelligence." ... "For us, it's a game changer," says Jennifer Eberhardt, a psychology professor at Stanford whose work on race and crime won her a MacArthur "genius grant." She leads a team of researchers who used AI to help review and analyze videos of nearly 600 traffic stops by Oakland police. "We could look at the first 27 seconds of the stop, the first roughly 45 words that the officer spoke, and we could use this model to predict whether that driver was going to be handcuffed, searched or arrested by the end of the stop," she says.
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Instagram to Automatically Put Teens Into Private Accounts With Increased Restrictions and Parental Controls
Teenagers on Instagram will soon be automatically placed in a new type of account with built-in privacy restrictions that give parents more control. ... Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of the “The Anxious Generation,” wrote in a post on X that he's "cautiously optimistic about Meta’s new teen accounts." "It is the biggest and best step forward I have seen from them," he wrote, later adding that "this is just a first step in reforming an ecosystem that badly needs a simpler, more robust way to identify minors and install real age gating, especially for those under 13."
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The Biggest Change to Instagram in Years
Teenagers are said to live on their phones, and one of the places where they spend the most time is Instagram. For many years, the perception has been that they are totally unsupervised there, much to their detriment. That may be changing: Meta, which owns Instagram, announced today that teenagers who use the app will be subject to a slew of new restrictions, as well as increased parental oversight. Under the new policy, accounts made or owned by anyone under the age of 18 will have limited functionality by default—a bid, the company says, to give parents “peace of mind that their teens are safe with the right protections in place.” ...
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‘We Are Like One Artist’: These Identical Twins Are in Sync From Graffiti to Gallery
They finish each other’s sentences. They say they don’t need words to communicate. Their creativity is in sync. “We are like one artist,” says Gustavo Pandolfo. His identical twin brother Otavio nods in agreement, adding, “There is a conversation in the air flying there, but only we can listen [to] each other.” ... “These guys have a way of just using their imagination to create all kinds of magical and unexpected renditions of things,” says Dr. Nancy Segal, a psychology professor at California State University Fullerton, who first encountered a mural by Osgemeos in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park.
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Friendship and Diversity: A Path to Stronger Communities?
Podcast: Why do we gravitate towards friends who share our background and identity? How does this affect our sense of community and well-being? Under the Cortex explores.
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In Defense of Spoiling the End of the TV Show
The premiere of the first-ever season of The Golden Bachelorette has been on my calendar for months. I can’t wait to watch 24 men who have aged exceedingly well climb out of their limos and greet the star, Joan Vassos, on Sept. 18 at the Bachelor Mansion. I’ll pay special attention to a few of them—because I already know exactly which guys are making it to hometowns and fantasy suites, and which one will walk away with the final rose. ... When Jonathan Leavitt started researching spoilers, he wanted to prove that suspense is good—that waiting with bated breath to find out what happens enhances the reading or watching experience.
