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The Future of Work: Machines Pulling Ahead, Quickly

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.

Sebastian Thrun

Environment

The Future of Robots Doesn’t Look Like What You Think It Looks Like

Our machines are very smart. They’re also very incompetent.

Susie Cagle

Social Justice

The Human Element in Cybersecurity Attacks

People are much stupider, and much smarter, than algorithms.

Francie Diep

Environment

Odometer Fraud Continues to Plague Used Car Sales

The tools and methods have evolved over the decades, but the crime remains the same.

Lauren Kirchner

Environment

The Small Sample Size of Humanity

Comparisons to machines and information processors hide what's most fascinating about the human body: its underlying randomness.

Michael White