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AI ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE
What even is an AI kill switch?
Amid renewed calls to slow frontier AI, experts are considering what an emergency stop would entail—and who would decide when to use it
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MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
How pizza can solve this unusual math puzzle
Moser’s circle problem can be used to divide a pizza into one, two, four, eight, 16 or 31 slices. It’s a perfect example of how the numbers in a sequence aren’t as clear-cut as they may first appear