THE 360°AI BLOG

Predictive justice covers AI tools that forecast judicial outcomes and reoffending risk. In the US, the COMPAS algorithm was accused of racial bias and later upheld in court under strict limits. In France, the DataJust project was abandoned. The EU AI Act classifies these systems as "high-risk." While AI can streamline civil litigation, using it in criminal justice raises serious questions about transparency, discrimination, and accountability.

Algorithmic bias is one of the most serious risks embedded in modern AI, and one of the least visible. From Amazon's sexist hiring tool to COMPAS in the US criminal justice system, AI systems have been shown to replicate and amplify the inequalities of the societies that created them. This article explains where these biases come from, how they snowball over time, and what regulators, developers, and users can do to detect and correct them before they cause irreversible harm.

An AI can't be sued, but someone has to answer for its mistakes. Between the Civil Code, the EU AI Act, and a liability directive scrapped in 2025, the legal framework remains fragmented. Developers, deployers, users: who actually carries the liability when an algorithm discriminates, injures, or misleads? A close look at a legal vacuum that worries lawyers and victims in equal measure, and the early court rulings starting to fill it in.

Weak AI, strong AI, superintelligence, the terminology keeps expanding as AI matures. This piece breaks down the three real stages of AI: Narrow AI (ANI), already embedded in your streaming apps; General AI (AGI), the hypothetical human-equivalent system some believe GPT-5 is edging toward; and Super AI (ASI), the still-fictional tier that could one day surpass human intelligence. We also unpack the two competing visions for AI's future, existential risk versus radical life e

AI systems are increasingly designed to look, speak, and behave like humans, triggering the psychological phenomenon known as anthropomorphism. From ELIZA's 1960s therapy illusion to Japan's grief robots, humans consistently project human qualities onto machines. This creates genuine risks: emotional dependency, manipulation, and ethical confusion. This article unpacks the science, the documented dangers, and the strategies needed to protect both individuals and society.

DeepSeek is the Chinese open-source AI that shocked Silicon Valley in early 2025, claiming to match ChatGPT performance at a fraction of the cost. Built by Liang Wenfeng's startup and trained for a reported $5.58M, it features specialized sub-models for math and code, a live web search mode, and a developer API priced far below Western rivals. But it censors politically sensitive topics and stores all user data in China, triggering bans in Italy, Australia, and beyond.