This is what Aïcha – a fictional Master's student in AI – and her friend Félix discover in Utop'IA an educational (French language) graphic novel developed in association with author and illustrator Herji as part of a project initiated by LEARN. "Exploring AI through an environmental lens brings its physical, tangible side into sharp focus," says Sonia Agrebi, an expert in digital sociology and a LEARN projects manager. "Utop'IA examines how AI can make both a positive and negative impact on the environment. As a society, we use AI without realizing the repercussions. Our aim isn't to moralize or point the finger of blame, but rather to challenge perceptions and explain concepts to raise awareness of the issues surrounding AI." Utop'IA is backed by solid scientific reasoning and evidence, since every detail was reviewed by a committee of EPFL experts in AI, sustainability and learning science. "AI is playing an increasingly important role in our everyday lives, but I find it alarming that so little is said about its environmental impact. Utop'IA offers digestible insights into this complex subject."

When NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice in 2016, he soon found himself out of a job, eventually moving onto other ventures in media and entertainment. Today, he's entering the AI industry by launching a project he says he hopes will allow others to bypass "gatekeeping:" an artificial intelligence platform called Lumi. The new subscription-based platform aims to provide tools for storytellers to create, illustrate, publish and monetize their ideas. The company has raised 4 million in funding led by Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six, and its product went live today, July 24. In an interview with TIME, Kaepernick says this project can be viewed as an extension of his activism.

I was open how it was made and put Midjourney on the cover page. It wasn't altered in any other way," Kashtova writes. I registered it as visual arts work. My certificate is in the mail and I got the number and a confirmation today that it was approved. My friend lawyer gave me this idea and I decided to make a precedent."

The registration, effective September 15, applies to a comic book called Zarya of the Dawn. Kashtanova created the artwork for Zarya using Midjourney, a commercial image synthesis service. I was open how it was made and put Midjourney on the cover page. It wasn't altered in any other way. Just the way you saw it here.

Armed police couldn't stop the shooters in Buffalo and in Uvalde. But perhaps a very small drone equipped with a Taser could. Specifically, Axon CEO Rick Smith said in a Thursday announcement, "non-lethal drones capable of incapacitating an active shooter in less than 60 seconds" (or so the press release goes), which would be stationed inside of schools. At the push of a panic button, a trained human pilot at a control center elsewhere in the country would launch a drone. With the help of a network of security cameras, they would try to target the drone's onboard Taser probes into the shooter's flesh, in the hope of keeping them down until police could arrive on the scene.

Sure the average video gamer is 34 years old, but the most active group is boys under 18, a group famously resistant to reading. Here is the RTSF Top 10 recommendations of books that have robots plus enough world building to rival Halo or Doom and lots of action or puzzles to solve. What's even cooler is that you can cleverly use the "Topics" links to work in some STEM talking points by asking things like: do you think it would be easy reprogram cars to hit pedestrians instead of avoiding them? How would you fool a security drone? But you may want to read them too, the first six on the list are books that I routinely recommend to general audiences and people tell me how much they loved them.

Marisa Johnson's six-year-old daughter was just learning to read independently when her Alameda, California, school shut down last year. Without solid literacy skills and lots of time stuck at home, the tot is spending much more time playing video games and watching shows than reading books. "She's definitely reading less," Johnson says. "The only way we can be alone among ourselves is with screens." As many parents know, screen time has ballooned during the pandemic.

If you get an invite to Stanley Kubrick's house, never refuse. I was fortunate enough to be invited by the University of Arts and the Kubrick family to an intimate evening in Harpenden to celebrate the launch of Thames & Hudson's book Artificial Intelligence: The Vision Behind The Film. I went to take a picture but was swiftly reprimanded. Oh, the irony of being in the house of one of cinema's greatest directors but unable to take a photo -- Kubrick may be dead, but the air of secrecy still lingers thick. I made my way down a grand, glass-floored corridor and entered his red walled library, packed full of medical tomes, history books, sci fi novels and a smattering of awards.

When you've got Egyptian heritage and live in the West, something funny happens when you meet another Egyptian. We get giddy, we smile a lot, we act as if we've known each other forever. After some coffee and a quick tour of his California bungalow, the graphic artist known as Ganzeer hands me a stack of some pages from The Solar Grid. The black-and-white pages are crinkled and dried after being soaked in ink. Each panel looks like it may have taken hours.

The first comic that cartoonist Gene Luen Yang ever bought was a two-in-one issue that featured a man made out of rocks and an intergalactic cyborg. He loved comics, especially the kind that featured space aliens. So he started making his own. He and a friend drew comics and sold them for 50 cents each. Among their earliest creations were the "Trans-Smurfers," Smurfs who transformed into robotic fruit. They also flew and fought crime.