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Two models for future autonomous agentic AIs
News, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 10/04/2025
» AI "agents" are coming, whether we are ready or not. While there is much uncertainty about when AI models will be able to interact autonomously with digital platforms, other AI tools, and even humans, there can be little doubt that this development will be transformative -- for better or worse. Yet, despite all the commentary (and hype) around agentic AI, many big questions remain unaddressed, the biggest being which type of AI agent the tech industry is seeking to develop.
Envoys enlisted to sift victims
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 14/02/2025
» International embassies in Bangkok are being invited to a meeting at the Royal Thai Police (RTP) to discuss how it is identifying victims of human trafficking among a group of at least 260 foreigners rescued recently from Thailand's neighbouring countries.
Cry for help from Moei River 'scam city'
News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 10/01/2025
» 'Do you think I can get out of here?" the question induced sudden dead air as no one could answer it. But for people familiar with the stories of a city of scammers located in a border town in Myanmar, it is not difficult to feel the gravity of terror inflicted on the woman who raised such a question.
America can learn a lot from Botswana polls
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/11/2024
» Botswana's elections have always been seen as a model for Africa, but the one last week has a somewhat wider relevance. The way its politicians handled victory and defeat could serve as a model for politicians in the United States.
Decade-old sketch leads to woman's arrest
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 23/09/2024
» Police with the Anti Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) of the Central Investigation Bureau spent one month looking through loads of files to catch the last suspect in a decade-old human trafficking case. They had only one clue -- a sketch of an anonymous woman.
Sex slave hits back, shooter's lament, granny on a high
News, Mae Moo, Published on 30/06/2024
» Kathoey demands pound of flesh
Waitress rescued from 'torture, enslavement'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 26/10/2023
» A 21-year-old woman has been rescued from a Japanese restaurant in Bangkok's Phasi Charoen district after allegedly being treated like a slave by the owner who the woman claims abused and tortured her for a year.
Trafficking battle yet to be won
News, Editorial, Published on 30/04/2023
» When Thailand's ranking in anti-human trafficking efforts improved last year in the US annual assessment, the government boldly declared that Thailand would make the top ranking by 2023.
Rohingya need urgent rescue
News, Editorial, Published on 25/12/2022
» Today, as Christmas marks a celebration of family and giving around the world, about 200 Rohingya refugees are stranded at sea, starving and dying. For the past three weeks, they have gone without food and water. About 20 of them, including women and young children, have died. More will get sick and die if they do not receive help in time.
Cops rescue five abused over 'debt'
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 18/10/2022
» Five people were rescued by authorities from an apartment in Bangkok's Bang Phlat district yesterday, saying they had been unlawfully detained and abused over a fictitious debt.