Artificial Intelligence

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

• By Tom Jacobs

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?

• By Sophie Yeo

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