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The work underscores what can go wrong when an AI that manages city transport, safety, health and environmental monitoring predicts the future and intervenes in the present, significantly influencing urban governance and public policy development. Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is boosting anticipatory forms of governance around the world, helping state actors to predict the future and focus their efforts in the present where the AI predicts they can have the greatest positive impact.

Answers relating to LGBTQIA+ representation given by ChatGPT are dramatically less accurate than those generated by Google searches, with some specific queries showing an 84% drop in accuracy.

In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labelled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they typically feature a narrow passage leading to an internal chamber, covered by a large circular mound.

Retired high-performance contact sports athletes are being asked to participate in a ground-breaking research study investigating the links between sport-related brain injury and dementia risk in later life.

Lengthy prison sentences can be as effective as the death penalty in deterring homicides, according to new University of Limerick research.

Researchers at University of Limerick have launched a new online resource to provide advice for people suffering with knee and hip joint pain.

In a groundbreaking paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics researchers from the University of Vermont and Trinity College Dublin propose an innovative analogy between AI models and genetic encoding to help us understand how genes encode the complex information that enables them to create an organism.

New research from zoologists at Trinity College Dublin has pinpointed park entrances and playgrounds in Dublin as hotspots for roundworm eggs, with subsequent analysis strongly implying they have come from dog faeces. While unsavoury, the findings do pinpoint these locations for targeted interventions to reduce the risk of human infection.