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Can AI ever be perfectly aligned with human values? New research suggests the answer may be no. Managing behavioral diversity among AI agents could be a more practical path.
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Average support for gender equality worldwide has plateaued, in part because of higher population growth in countries where support for women’s rights is low and because of higher fertility among those with less egalitarian views. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/IjmG50Z9mwq
People who have overcome adversity often oppose reform to make the goals they achieved less arduous for others. This tendency to “pull up the ladder” stems from a desire to protect the value of a hard-won achievement, according to a study. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/MsIK50Z8UHq
In a new Editorial, Vaughan Turekian of The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine explores how linking data, models, computing, and instrumentation at scale could reshape global science and technology diplomacy. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/ARaR50Z89Q0
A deep sea sponge that has typically been studied in isolation, Euplectella aspergillum, tends to live in bouquets of several sponges. Why? A complex hydrodynamic entanglement favors downstream organisms at no cost to upstream ones. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/SqGZ50Z89S9
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Machine learning helps predict the speed at which rock glaciers move across the Pamir-Karakoram-Kunlun region in High Mountain Asia. Upslope connection to a glacier is a critical factor controlling rock glacier velocities. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/ThRp50Z9meA
