Artificial Intelligence

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

• By Ashley Hackett

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.

• By Lynn Freehill-Maye

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

• By Glenn Dixon

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

• By Subhash Kak

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

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

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

• By Daniel Bear

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?

• By Elizabeth Weingarten

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

• By Jack Denton

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

• By Avital Andrews

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.

• By Francie Diep

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

• By Bina Venkataraman

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

• By Ted Scheinman

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

• By Scott Beauchamp

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.

• By Nils J. Nilsson

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.

• By Neil Jacobstein

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.

• By Frank Levy

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.

• By Diane E. Bailey

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.

• By Jerry Kaplan

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.

• By Moshe Y. Vardi

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.

• By Martin Ford

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.

• By John Markoff

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.

• By Sebastian Thrun

Noah Davis talks to the founder of Wolfram Alpha about computing the world's knowledge, how his kids got him to start traveling, and why he's not scared of AI.

• By Noah Davis

Not right now—or at least, not until we know more—but it's a question a surprising number of people are asking.

• By Noah Davis