Artificial Intelligence

China and Hong Kong have started using tech to create "smart" prisons. Should the U.S. consider following their lead?

The right kind of A.I. can respond to any threat of violence, thereby encouraging bystanders to take action to maintain responsible online communities.

The AI debate has tended to center on men, but research shows that women make up 58 percent of the workers at the highest risk of job loss due to automation.

The U.S. and China are increasingly rival superpowers—albeit deeply interdependent frenemies—and that has spread into tech innovation as well.

Researchers have recently discovered that anyone can trick hate speech detectors with simple changes to their language.

Pacific Standard spoke with a philosopher who's trying to code ethical algorithms into autonomous vehicles.

Scientists have developed an open-source artificial intelligence algorithm for acoustic identification of bat species that could help save them from the threat of wind farms.

A new study finds a robot's color affects how people react to it.

Deep learning models are allowing us to identify flora and fauna automatically. But are there scientific tasks—tasks so intrinsically human—that they can't be done by a computer?

A cybersecurity expert weighs in on this week's Capitol Hill testimonies.

While investor Bill Miller's recent $75 million university endowment for philosophy astonished Americans, Ireland has gone one step further: introducing the subject to high school students.

Compelling without being any fun, the mindless minimalism of clicker games provides a futuristic look at the present.

It sounds like the plot of science-fiction movie, but academics have long debated the possibility of conscious artificial intelligence.

What Google Street View images tell us about our neighborhoods—and ourselves.

We can learn more about our own internal decision-making processes through the language of mathematical algorithms used by AI machines.

If care jobs become the last human jobs, could that encourage employers and policymakers to recognize and value them as the economically critical work that they are?

Researchers at Facebook just showed the Turing Test isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Peysakhovich's interdisciplinary work is driven by his deep interest in understanding decision-making—both human and machine.

Nineteen years after Deep Blue won a chess match against a grand master, a Google team has created an A.I. that's able to win against professional players of the ancient Chinese strategy game of Go.

Gene editing has come further than ever before. That means we need to start thinking further ahead than ever before.

The latest entry in a series of interviews about subculture in America.

Transhumanists like Zoltan Istvan are optimistic about a political system run by “altruistic” machine overlords. But should we really outsource morality to machines?

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.

The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace.