Artificial Intelligence Archives

Students at Temple Carrig School participate in a philosophical discussion.

Education

Going Beyond the STEM Trend, Ireland Pushes Philosophy

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.

Lynn Freehill-Maye

clicker games clicking bad future of work

Economics

Clicker Games, Capitalism, and the End of Work

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

Glenn Dixon

News in Brief

Could Humanity Actually Create a Self-Aware Machine?

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

Subhash Kak

Fort Morgan, Colorado, as seen through a Google Street View illustration.

Economics

Counting Cars to Understand Demographics

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

Kevin Charles Fleming

News in Brief

How Artificial Intelligence Can Explain Unconscious Decision-Making

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

Daniel Bear

News in Brief

How Artificial Intelligence Could Benefit Those in Empathy-Centric Professions

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?

Elizabeth Weingarten